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Scytosiphon sp. (Soda straws)
Copyright © 2006 Jan Holmes
This long, tubular, brown seaweed, often constricted at uneven intervals, resembles thin link sausage or perhaps the intestines of a small mammal. Plants grow to ~50 cm tall and ~1 cm wide in the mid to low intertidal. Individual tubes are un-branched, but several tubes may arise from one holdfast. Scytosiphon also has an encrusting “tar spot” growth phase.
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page was created by Jan Holmes on 12/19/06.
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