by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Plaice – Pleuronectes platessa Where is your plaice in the world? On the rockyshore! Thats because rockyshore are great nursery grounds for baby flatfish – so if you head down to the shore late spring to summer, and just watch the sand in the bottom of...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Serrated wrack can be told apart, quite easily from the other Fucus species once you know what to look for. Its a very flat fucus, with no...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Serrated Wrack – Fucus serratus Fucuses are brown seaweed which cover alot of the middle of rockyshores in the UK. Spiral wrack can be told apart from the other Fucus species if you look at the way it hangs down. If you see the ends of the fronds spiral...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Thongweed – Himanthalia elongata Thongweed, names because well…. look at the pictures your see. A long seaweed made up of single strands that can stretch for several metres, its one of the few seaweeds you will have trouble misidentifying! I dont have a...
by MarineMumbles | Jul 5, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Seaweeds, Species List
Channelled wrack – Pelvetia canaliculata This seaweed can be found right at the top of the shore! It has some amazing adaptations, explained in this video, about how its able to survive hours out of water in the sun without drying out and dying. Its one of the...
by MarineMumbles | May 25, 2020 | Brown Seaweeds, Species List
Sugar Kelp – Saccharina latissima This another species of Kelp you can find in the UK, but is less common than Laminaria digitata, which tends to form much larger kelp beds. Still important this kelp species can be easily told apart both by shape, this is long...
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