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iNaturalist NZ: rhodolith non-geniculate coralline algae

While on holiday, one of the Science Learning Hub team came across a lot of rocks with a strange crumbly white coating. The iNaturalist NZ community helped to identify this as a rhodolith non-geniculate coralline algae.

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