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Endless Forms Most Beautiful

“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realise that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” US writer Dave Barry

In the sea’s hidden gardens grow plants without roots, flowers or fruit. Some looks artifically bright, like Troll doll hair – others like green necklaces, translucent elephant ears or plush green cushions. They are, in all their mad, unsung variety, the “macroalgae” – seaweeds.

They can be an epiphyte found near the Three Kings Islands, that grows all of 2.5mm.

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