What Is Hiding Among Sea Greens

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What Is Hiding Among Sea Greens

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Miroslava Jurcik

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That is waratah anemone and sea lettuce I have found at the tidal rock pool at La Perouse Point, Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia.
Sea lettuce is easy to find and forage, and it’s packed with goodness. Sea lettuce is the only seaweed that you can go down to the rocks to search for, harvest carefully with a small knife, and fill a small basket to take home for eating.
Sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca) is a green algae that’s found clinging to rocks in the inter-tidal zone, between the high and low tide mark. There’s quite a few varieties worldwide but they all look largely similar, and like lettuce.
Actinia tenebrosa, commonly named Waratah anemone, is the most common species of sea anemone found in the waters of eastern Australia, and New Zealand. It is found relatively high on the seashore, in rock pools, and various cracks and shaded surfaces such as under rock overhangs in the intertidal zone.
When underwater this sea anemone opens up to display numerous tentacles, arranged in three whorls. Out of water, the tentacles retract and the anemone closes to resemble a dome shaped red, crimson, brown, green or black blob of jelly, about 4 cm (1.6 in) across and 2.7 cm (1 in) high. This species was first described in 1898 by H Farquhar who wrote "Full-grown individuals in situations well exposed to the rays of the sun have a column greenish or brownish black, and the disc and tentacles dusky crimson, while those on the undersides of overhanging stones are reddish brown or crimson, the depth of colour varying according to the amount of light which reaches them."
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