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| From Sardinia |
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| From Sardinia |
While in Sardinia recently, we saw a beach littered with some little fuzzy brown balls, and the beach itself covered in a fibrous brown mat.
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| From Sardinia |
It turns out that its an algae, from an answer here http://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080902051857AA7Z1iN, translated rather badly here http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.answers.yahoo.com%2Fquestion%2Findex%3Fqid%3D20080902051857AA7Z1iN&sl=it&tl=en&history_state0=
- "Si l'answerino well above says .. we call balls marine or marine potatoes ... it is full also of the coast and all the Arborea Oristanese. Are simply aggregates of algae, I think fragments of Posidonia, underwater plant, which the waves and underwater currents have worked to make them spherical. Are not only aesthetically damaging and ruining the beach a bit. In fact, in the beginning of the season means the mechanical harvesting and crowded. From little ones was a fun play in these huge piles of balls marine"
Little bit of botany here www2.units.it/~galilei/Tavole/tab123.htm "Posidonia oceanica 3-6cm, Fanerogama"
