Japanese wireweed / Japweed (Sargassum muticum), an invasive species from the western Pacific spreading on European coasts.

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Japanese wireweed / Japanese weed / Japweed (Sargassum muticum), an invasive species from the western Pacific spreading in Europe and the UK, buoyed up by air bladders in a rockpool, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK, July.

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Size: 3803px × 5700px
Location: Kimmeridge, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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