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Jorge Pires
Vera Pereira
Heimaey Island, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.
Heimaey, literally meaning Home Island, is the largest island of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the coast of Iceland. Being the only populated island in the whole archipelago, Heimaey is home to approximately 4,500 people and the place where many millions of birds migrate every summer for breeding and feeding, including 8 million puffins. |
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It is a massive, leathery seaweed, with a large, conical and claw-like holdfast and branched rhizoids. In suitable conditions, it can grow up to 3.5 m in length although it is rarely achieved, usually it grows about 2m in length. In a cross section, its stipe is circular, rough, rigid, thick at the base and generally sticks up out of the water, when older it is covered in epiphytic red algae. The blade is broad, large, tough, glossy, flat and divided into 5 - 20 straps or fingers (digitate). Its color can vary from golden brown to very dark brown.
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Laminaria hyperborea (Gunnerus) Foslie |
