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Kelp Trees
Sunlight Illuminates Undulating Kelp Forests in Underwater Photographs by Douglas Klug
low intertidal macro! i still get so excited seeing macrocystis in the wild - it's so beautiful
the lack of local kelps for me to reblob is making me sad. Motivation to burn all my money on an underwater camera to provide some
Hey, relax! We’re all fronds here in this post!
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Note: The captions for each photo are what they were named on the website where initially found and may or may not accurately describe the images.
Image credits (See captions for photo titles):
Green Palm Tree Near White Concrete Building - Jess Loiterton - Posted on August 21st, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/beach-vacation-sand-hotel-9269096/
Photo of Fern Leaves - Ave Calvar Martinez - Posted on May 18th, 2020
https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-fern-leaves-4372485/
A Close-Up Shot of a Fern Plant - Dmitriy Ganin - Posted on April 29th, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-close-up-shot-of-a-fern-plant-7694032/
Green Leaf Plant - Anna - Posted on March 23rd, 2020
https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-leaf-plant-3972650/
Brown Aquatic Plants in Close Up Photography - Kindel Media - Posted on July 21st, 2021
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-aquatic-plants-in-close-up-photography-8849620/
Old wonky mermaid
THESE ARE NOT PLANTS
I was going put together a cute meme about how seaweed/kelp isn't a plant, it's macroalgae. But to do that, I wanted to show a photo of some ocean life that actually are plants. The problem is that the first two sources that come up when you do a google search for "ocean plants" include multiple kinds of algae, as well as ANEMONES AND CORALS. CORALS AND ANEMONES ARE ANIMALS.
So now, the theme of this post has changed from "Kelp isn't a plant" to:
"NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE PLANTS"
Kelp are a type of macro algae from the Protista kingdom. Protists are not animals, plants or fungi.
Anemone and corals are from the Metazoa sub-kingdom, aka they are animals. They are also not plants. No, not even the corals that host photosynthetic organisms within them - because the zooxanthellae they host are protists, like the kelp.
