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Kōrero: Seaweed

Green seaweeds

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Green seaweeds

Found growing on coastal rocks around Wellington’s harbour, bright green sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca) and the darker rock velvet (Codium convolutum) are common green seaweeds. Growing alongside them is the crust-forming red seaweed known as pink paint.

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by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Maggy Wassilieff, Seaweed – Types of seaweed, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4587/green-seaweeds (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.