This aquatic autotroph has a large wavy trunk that supports a broad woody cone. The base of the zambor tree expands to form a fibrous system of reddish brown roots.
Zambor trees survive while completely submerged in seawater. Although a zambor can survive with limited light, it grows best in the upper water column, where they can access sunlight. Zambor trees can form underwater forests within 100 m of the shoreline.
Zambor trees absorb nutrients from seawater through their roots, which contain symbiotic microbes that assist in this process. The foliage of the zambor tree captures gasses and sunlight needed to generate carbohydrates by photosynthesis.
A grove of zambor trees is actually one large organism. The tree reproduces asexually by sprouting new trunks from its expansive system of roots. When separated, a small mass of roots can disperse by currents to eventually generate a new grove of trees.
Because all zambor trees are clones, the grove of trees in the Sea of Phygarus is technically the largest organism in the Intergalactic Wildlife Sanctuary.