Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 28, 2017
Weekend plans to visit British Columbia’s Juan de Fuca Provincial Park went astray, so I am instead sharing images from last year’s low tides trip. This is the Botanical Beach site where I’ve previously photographed sea palm and stiff-stiped kelp. In the first photograph, Postelsia palmaeformis occupies the rocks with the mussels, while Laminaria setchellii […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 9, 2017
The fourth entry in the Coastal Flora of the Pacific Rim series features the alga Fucus gardneri.
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 6, 2017
I (Tamara) wrote this entry [a couple years ago] while on my yearly week-long pilgrimage to Pacific Rim National Park, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The rugged coastline of this park holds endless stretches of beach – paradise for surfers, beachcombers, and biologists alike. This entry, the first of […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 29, 2015
Last month, one of our readers pointed out that I share a last name with a famous 19th century phycologist, Théophile Bonnemaison. I am pleasantly surprised to realize that Théophile was the namesake of not only a genus, but also a family and even an order! I don’t know whether I am distantly related to […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on March 5, 2008
Dr. Rob DeWreede, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Botany, maintains a algae research lab at UBC. He provided today’s photographs and write-up (note: the first photograph is courtesy of Dr. Colin Bates). These photographs are of the kelp, Laminaria setchellii, a species of brown algae (Phaeophyceae). Both photographs were taken in Barkley Sound, which […]
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Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 22, 2007
Sea palms are one of the few algae covered in-depth on Wikipedia: Postelsia palmaeformis. Like Pelvetiopsis limitata, it is found from the coasts of northern Vancouver Island to the coastal waters of mid-California.
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