Battered Cypress with Orange Alga

by Kathleen Bishop

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Battered Cypress with Orange Alga

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Kathleen Bishop

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Photograph - Photography

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Fine art photograph of an ancient wind-tortured cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) encrusted with orange alga (Trentepohlia aurea v. polycarpa). Decades of fierce winds and salt spray have humbled, but not broken, this tough old warrior.

Trentepohlia aurea v. polycarpa, the non-parasitic alga that’s colonized the branches, thrives in salt spray and actually prefers to grow on surfaces exposed to the ocean winds. It is rich in beta carotene, which accounts for its rather creepy orange pigment.

The alga also spreads in swathes across rocky ocean-side cliffs where the wind tears off huge flat hunks and sends them sailing up to land on the headlands, where they look exactly like dirty shag carpets from the 70’s!

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March 13th, 2018

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