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| image = Laminaria.jpg | | image = Laminaria.jpg | ||
| image_caption =Two fronds of ''Laminaria digitata'' washed up on the foreshore of Anglesey, Wales, UK; background is mostly ''Ascophyllum nodosum''. | | image_caption =Two fronds of ''Laminaria digitata'' washed up on the foreshore of Anglesey, Wales, UK; background is mostly ''Ascophyllum nodosum''. | ||
− | | description =Ascophyllum nodosum is an edible seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Ascophyllum nodosum has long fronds with large egg-shaped air-bladders set in the fronds at regular intervals and not stalked. The fronds can reach 2 m in length. They are attached by a holdfast to rocks and boulders. The fronds are olive-brown in color and somewhat compressed but without a mid-rib. | + | | range = It is common on the northwestern coast of Europe (from Svalbard to Portugal) including east Greenland [1] and the northeastern coast of North America. |
+ | | description =Ascophyllum nodosum is an edible seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Ascophyllum nodosum has long fronds with large egg-shaped air-bladders set in the fronds at regular intervals and not stalked. The fronds can reach 2 m in length. They are attached by a holdfast to rocks and boulders. The fronds are olive-brown in color and somewhat compressed but without a mid-rib. This seaweed grows quite slowly and can live for several decades; it may take approximately five years before becoming fertile. | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:54, 26 February 2021
Knotted wrack, Egg wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum)
Where found: It is common on the northwestern coast of Europe (from Svalbard to Portugal) including east Greenland [1] and the northeastern coast of North America.
Description: Ascophyllum nodosum is an edible seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Ascophyllum nodosum has long fronds with large egg-shaped air-bladders set in the fronds at regular intervals and not stalked. The fronds can reach 2 m in length. They are attached by a holdfast to rocks and boulders. The fronds are olive-brown in color and somewhat compressed but without a mid-rib. This seaweed grows quite slowly and can live for several decades; it may take approximately five years before becoming fertile.