Sea Belt

Saccharina latissima

Also called ‘Sugar Kelp’ or ‘Poor Man’s Weatherglass’, this is a long, belt-like brown to olive coloured seaweed with wavy edges and a crinkled centre. Length 4cm.

It grows in deep pools and around the low tide mark, usually on sheltered rocky shores attached to rocks with a small branching holdfast. A common and widespread species.

Photographs of Sea Belt (Saccharina latissima), taken August 2015, in rock pool  Meadfoot Beach, Torquay, Devon. © Pete Hillman 2015. Camera used Nikon D3200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens.

10/16 by Peter Hillman Categories: Algae, Coast, Nature Photography, SeaweedsTags: Beach, Devon, Macro, Macro Photography, Meadfoot Beach, Nature, Nature Photography, Ocean, Poor Man’s Weatherglass, Saccharina latissima, Sea, Sea Belt, Seashore, Seaweed, Seaweeds, Sugar Kelp, Torquay, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography Leave a comment