Algae

Postelsia palmaeformis habitat

Postelsia palmaeformis

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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Fucus gardneri, or common rockweed

Fucus gardneri

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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Nereocystis luetkeana near Tofino, Canada

Nereocystis luetkeana

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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A close-up of Nereocystis luetkeana

Nereocystis luetkeana

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 8, 2017

A whale-watching trip last summer led to photographing more than cetaceans.

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The red algae, Bonnemaisonia hamifera

Bonnemaisonia hamifera

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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Laminaria setchellii in Barkley Sound

Laminaria setchellii

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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Postelsia palmaeformis growing in Juan de Fuca Provincial Park

Postelsia palmaeformis

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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