Color Challenge Thursday - Green

The emerald green waters of the Pacific Northwest is home to some amazing plants. Bull Kelp grows and thrives in these rough-and-tumble coastal waters. To endure and thrive in these conditions this kelp uses a rootlike holdfast, which has many fingerlike projections that hold the plant tight to rocks. From the holdfast, a flexible stem extends 10 - 20 meters, gradually enlarging to form a single, round float. As many as sixty long, narrow blades grow from the float and form a golden green-brown canopy on the water's surface.

Bull kelp is an annual seaweed—meaning it grows from a spore to maturity within a single year. It grows quickly, sometimes 25 cm in one day. When storms pull Bull Kelp from their rocky perches, they wash a shore and dry out in the sun turning a dark brown colour. This colour change and dry out gives them the appearance of bullwhips which is where their name comes from.

Thanks for reading.

Scott