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Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments. There are about 60 species of fully marine seagrasses which belong to four families ( Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae ), all in the order Alismatales (in the clade of monocotyledons ). [ 1 ] Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants which ...
Tasman Sea – 2.3 million km 2 (0.89 million sq mi) Bay of Bengal – 2.172 million km 2 (0.839 million sq mi) Bering Sea – 2 million km 2 (0.77 million sq mi) Sea of Okhotsk – 1.583 million km 2 (0.611 million sq mi) Gulf of Mexico – 1.550 million km 2 (0.598 million sq mi)
Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea buckthorn may be hyphenated [ 1] to avoid confusion with the unrelated true buckthorns ( Rhamnus, family Rhamnaceae ). It is also referred to as sandthorn, sallowthorn, [ 2] or seaberry. [ 3] It produces orange-yellow berries, which have been ...
Port Royal. Port Royal is a major harbor in the Caribbean. It is based on the historical Port Royal, a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica . Elizabeth Swann arrives in Port Royal as a child, after her father Weatherby Swann is appointed governor.
The classification of corals has been discussed for millennia, owing to having similarities to both plants and animals. Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus described the red coral, korallion, in his book on stones, implying it was a mineral, but he described it as a deep-sea plant in his Enquiries on Plants, where he also mentions large stony plants that reveal bright flowers when under water in ...
The Sargasso Sea ( / sɑːrˈɡæsoʊ /) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. [ 1] Unlike all other regions called seas, it has no land boundaries. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It is distinguished from other parts of the Atlantic Ocean by its characteristic brown Sargassum seaweed and often calm blue water. [ 1] The ...
Caviar (also known as caviare, originally from the Persian: خاویار, romanized : khâvyâr, lit. 'egg-bearing') is a food consisting of salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae. Caviar is considered a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or spread. [1] Traditionally, the term caviar refers only to roe from wild sturgeon in the Caspian Sea ...
Key Largo has a new, disturbing and first-of-its-kind graveyard. There are no headstones, no burial markers, no names, no bodies. It’s the last place an incredibly rare species of tree called ...