#fucus

[snototter]

Rockweed (Fucus distichus) in Olympic National Park, Washington, USA

by Alan Cressler

[jagalart]

Basil Two different renditions of @littledisgustingart's Basil I've done as ArtFight attack (left) and charity commission (right) 🔥

[jadafitch]

Puffin in Rockweed Stickers! New to my Etsy Shop.

[botaniqueer]

Found some photos I thought I had lost! These are from over ten years ago when I was in Newport and was able to visit the ocean more often. I technically still live near the sea but chronic illness has made it difficult to get the energy to see my invertebuddies since the beach isn’t easily accessible without a car. I do miss my nature walks a lot.

Friends include various (mostly unidentified) jellies, s ctenophores, bladderwrack, and the largest sea lemon nudibranch I had ever seen.

The jellyfish with the red eyes is Polyorchis penicillatus! Folks in iNaturalist seem to think the big beached Schyphozoa is a fried egg jelly and not a Lion’s Mane like I thought. The others I haven’t been able to get identified.

Clione (a sea angel, a swimming gastropod) is also here! Definitely not something I expected to find in the shallows of a bay. I’m guessing most of this stuff was swept up by the tide from deeper more open waters.

[kelporama]

The pressing, a lovely fucus, and the mark it left on the other piece of paper

[lovecraftsgarden]

Fucus serratus

Toothed Wrack, Serrated Wrack

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[regnum-plantae]

Fucus serratus, Fucaceae

A couple of weeks ago the weather was good enough to spend an afternoon at the beach, so we headed to one of our favourite ones, the popular Troon beach on the west coast of Scotland. Although generally quite busy on a sunny day, the sandy shore is so long you can virtually find a spot with nobody in sight at any time, if you walk long enough. On the way to our usual corner I suddenly realised I still haven’t described a single seaweed! I went to explore the closest rocky tidal pools and the first one I saw was rightfully one of the most typical, given the location and its features.

Toothed or serrated wrack is a brown alga which thrives on the rocky littoral area of the entire British Isles, but its areal spans from Portugal to Norway on the Atlantic coast of Europe. It grows smaller than the related and similar bladder wrack, F. vesciculosus, more noticeable due to its inflated air bladders, but both are edible and can be used as they are or dry as a savoury condiment. Although more often harvested for use in cosmetic products than for food, here in Scotland they have also traditionally been used to produce a fertiliser rich in nitrogen. 

[lovecraftsgarden]

Fucus vesiculosus

Bladderwrack, Rockweed, Sea Oak

DIJUNO? Bladderwrack was the original source of iodine, a chemical commonly used for medical applications. And after a dog took a chomp out of my hand a couple of years ago, it was used to sanitize the wounds. I screamed a lot. 

Good stuff.

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