Sea-grasses

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Neptune-grasses - Posidoniaceae

Common Neptune-grass      Posidonia oceanica

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. A submarine, flowering plant that forms extensive colonies on the seabed but typically is only seen when plant fragments are washed ashore. Vast quantities of old leaf fragments wash up on beaches regularly, often being rolled up into tight balls, known locally as egagropili or 'Neptune's Balls'.

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Leaf fragments
'Neptune's Balls'
'Neptune's Balls'
Leaf bases and stem
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Leaf bases and stem
Washed up leaves
Fruit
Fruit


Sea-grasses - Cymodoceaceae

Mediterranean Sea-grass      Cymodocea nodosa

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region and westwards to Macaronesia and West Africa. A submarine, flowering plant that typically is only seen when plant fragments are washed ashore.

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Plant fragment
Leaf and stem detail
Leaf scars on stem
Leaf scars on stem