Sargassum: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	sea holly • Sargassum • gulfweed

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Close-up of Sargassum algae with golden-brown fronds and numerous round, yellow air bladders clustered among the leaves.

A young boy in a neon yellow shirt and red shorts sits in shallow water on a sandy shore, with a dense blanket of brown sargassum algae covering the sea near Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

A Sargassum fish, Histrio histrio, camouflaged among floating brown sargassum algae near the ocean surface in the tropical Pacific.

A red tractor with a front loader removes large piles of brown sargassum seaweed from the sandy beach near the ocean in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

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