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Crabs clung to bull kelp stipes — stems — like sloths to a jungle vine. Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, "Another vital forest at risk: Scientists fear warming water could be killing off Puget Sound’s kelp beds," 15 Sep. 2019

They are easily identified by the red-brown cap fading to tan, white to lilac-gray gills, firm texture, and annulus (ring) around the stout stipe (stalk). Sunset, "How to Grow Mushrooms," 22 Jan. 2018

For more than an hour, Kern and Heifetz slice stipes and shuttle back and forth to offload totes of kelp to Hamilton aboard the Dial. Bethany Goodrich, Alaska Dispatch News, "Farming Alaska’s seas," 8 July 2017

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