DSC_7457 Brown seaweed (Halopteris virgata) plants are robust and bushy. Densly covered with short hairy lateral branchlets, dark greenish-brown in colour, with tips noticeably paler. Low intertidal and upper subtidal, on rock on open coasts. Catseye Point, Kakanui
DSC_7459 Brown seaweed (Halopteris virgata) detail. Plants are robust and bushy. Densly covered with short hairy lateral branchlets, dark greenish-brown in colour, with tips noticeably paler. Low intertidal and upper subtidal, on rock on open coasts. Catseye Point, Kakanui
DSC_1951 Moss weed (Bostrychia arbuscula) close up detail on rocky coast. This 'red' seaweed is often bleached khaki green by the sun. It occurs south of Cook Strait. Quarantine Point, Otago Harbour *
