Seaweed Macro
by Jerry Abbott
Title
Seaweed Macro
Artist
Jerry Abbott
Medium
Photograph - Metal, Acrylic, Canvas, Wood, Prints
Description
The tide was out when I took this photo of seaweed covered rocks and sand as I walked along the beach at Blakely Harbor on Bainbridge Island.
Plant name: Laminaria digitata
L. digitata is a tough, leathery, dark brown seaweed that grows to two or three metres. The holdfast which anchors it to the rock is conical and has a number of spreading root-like protrusions called rhizoids. The stipe or stalk is flexible and oval in cross section and may be over 1 inch in diameter and grow to 5 feet in length. The blade is large and shaped like the palm of a hand with a number of more or less regular finger-like segments. This seaweed can be distinguished from the rather similar Laminaria hyperborea by being darker in colour and having a shorter stipe that does not easily snap when bent.
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April 18th, 2020
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