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SEAWEED
Seaweed - Western Isles - - Outer Hebrides - Isle of Harris - Isle of Lewis - Hebridean Anemones
Western Isles - Seaweeds like those found throughout the world's oceans and seas really are very pretty. It is now known that some of the seaweeds are poisonous. Seaweed is like an underwater weed. Seaweed grows freely. It is is used for many things and is not a weed at all. Seaweed has many plant-like features but it really isn't a true plants - seaweed are are marine algae.


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Western Isles - Seaweed
Seaweed - Bright orange and red - at Scarista - Isle of Harris
Seaweed - Scarista - Isle of Harris
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Seaweed - Scarista
  
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Seaweed - Mangersta
Vivid bright colours - red and orange seaweed at the Scarista Picnic Area - Isle of Harris
  
Under the water this seaweed looks so pretty - Mangersta - Isle of Lewis
  
Lovely colours - seaweed growing out of the rock face at Mangersta.
         
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Spaghetti Seaweed
  
Seaweed - Western Isles
Just seaweed I know - but I think its pretty - it was on the Traigh Mhor beach
 
Just seaweed I know - but I think its pretty - it was on the Traigh Mhor beach
 
Just a close up of the pretty yellows seaweed seen on the Traigh Mhor Beach - Tolsta - Jun 2009
         
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Seaweed - Jellyfish
Seaweed glistening in the sun - Mangersta Beach
  
More seaweed - this time on Bosta Beach - Bernera - Western Isles
  
This seaweed and jelly fish were just being washed in by the tide at Traigh Mhor Tolsta
         
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Garry Rocks - Isle of Lewis
 
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Seaweed - Mangersta
Seaweed covered rocks at Garry Beach - Isle of Lewis - Hebrides
 
Seaweed - such lovely colours - Bernera - Western Isles
  
Seaweed - I think this is what is called bladderwrack seaweed
         
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Seaweed - Luskemtyre beach
Seaweed - bladder wrack, on the Western Isles beaches
  
Pretty seaweed on the Traigh Mhorr beach - Isle of Lewis
 
Seaweed - Luskentyre beach - Western Isles
         
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Pretty seaweed on the Bosta Rocks
    
Seaweed - Marine Algae
Western Isles - Seaweeds like those found throughout the world's oceans and seas really are very pretty. It is now known that some seaweeds are poisonous. Seaweed is like an underwater weed. Seaweed grows freely and often times plentiful, but it is used for many things and is not a weed at all. Seaweed has many plant-like features but it really isn't a true plants - seaweed are are marine algaes. They can have quite complicated structure - Whilst referred to often as plants, many scientists group them with single celled algae.

Seaweed Absorbs Fluids and Nutrients
With all parts of a seaweed in direct contact with the water, seaweed can absorb fluids, nutrients, and gases directly from the water and do not need an internal conducting system.

Used for Fertilisers - Food - Medicines
Most animal life in the ocean is in some way linked to marine plants and seaweeds are essential to ocean health. Some 400 different species of seaweeds around the world are used by people for food, stock feed, medicines and fertilisers.

Oxygen Giving - Photosynthesis
Seaweed contributes oxygen through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis takes place in the flat leaf-like parts (or blades) in those seaweeds that contain chlorophyll.

Three Basic Colours

There are three basic colours of seaweed, red, green and brown. There are two major categories of seaweed - kelp and wracks.

Reproduction

    Some of the simpler seaweeds reproduce like bacteria, by dividing without fertilization. Other types release fertilized spores into the water, which grow into seaweed and there are some which reproduce sexually and others reproduce when strands break off and grow new plants.


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