Attractive, narrow shrub or small tree (Rhus, or Toxicodendron, vernix) of the sumac, or cashew, family, also called poison elder, native to swampy acidic soils of eastern North America.
For one, we have a lot more fossils from swampy places and periods of the past, not necessarily because those periods were more diverse, but because the calm, muddy conditions were perfect for preservation.
" Even though it's almost 95 percent certain that it's gone, there's that slender chance that there's still a population, small population, hanging on to be found in some remote swampy forest in the south."
The woods grew thicker and darker, the ground more wet and swampy, and I found, as many grown people had found before me, that there was rather hard traveling in a journey after riches.
But it isn't just wildlife that thrive in this environment, the swampy ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of the grass family -rice.
Just like both of those cities, Jakarta was established within a swampy environment many centuries ago before the needs of modern cities were at all understood.