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Wild foraging sea vegetables
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Anonymous User
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Date: November 22, 2010 07:06AM I've recently begun foraging kelp on the beach. I've eaten it fresh, and it has digested well. Sometimes I see other kinds of sea weed, but I can't identify them and I don't know if they're safe to eat. Does anyone know a good website on this topic, especially one that has good illustrations of various sea weeds?
Thanks! Re: Wild foraging sea vegetables
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loeve
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Date: November 22, 2010 11:14PM A Wikipedia article has a nice overview on seaweed --
[en.wikipedia.org] They External link to an algae database which I've used before. It has a forum -- [forum.algaebase.org] Where I live the green seaweed, codium fragile, is constantly outgrowing its holdfasts and washing up on shore. It's an invasive species here. Sea lettuce can be gathered snorkling which I seldom do, actually preferring the codium. Re: Wild foraging sea vegetables
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Anonymous User
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Date: November 24, 2010 03:33AM Thanks for the help, loeve. There's lots of kelp in this area, but other things to which I can't yet identify. Re: Wild foraging sea vegetables
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loeve
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Date: November 24, 2010 01:27PM Someone living on Vancouver Island also asked recently and found someone local who gives seaweed tours --
[www.sea-flora.com] Someone else living in San Diego was interested and there's been a little local seaweed list done there that's online. The wikipedia article just happened to have a picture of codium fragile, a seaweed that I'd been nibbling on for a couple years without knowing what it was, come to find out they've reseached codium in Chile for its food value. I gather there's about 16,000 species worldwide with about 1,000 occuring in any one locale, so it's nice if there's a local guide of some sort. There's only about a dozen species I see while beach combing, but I've still just been able to identify a few. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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