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Caulerpa lentillifera or sea grape is a species of ulvophyte green algae from coastal regions in the Asia-Pacific.This seaweed is one of the favored species of edible Caulerpa due to its soft and succulent texture.
Eucheuma, commonly known as sea moss or gusô (/ ɡ u ˈ s ɔː ʔ /), is a rhodophyte seaweed that may vary in color (purple, brown, and green). Eucheuma species are used in the production of carrageenan, an ingredient for cosmetics, food processing, and industrial manufacturing, as well as a food source for people in the Philippines, Caribbean and parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. [1]
Caulerpa species support their large cell size by having the cytoplasm circulate constantly, supported by a network of microtubules.This behavior was known in 1967. [10]The cytoplasm does not leak out when the cell is cut.
As of 2019, seaweed represented 30% of marine aquaculture. [26] In 2023, the global seaweed extract market was valued at $16.5 billion, with strong projected growth. [27] Seaweed farming is a carbon negative crop, with a high potential for climate change mitigation.
The branches are a few centimetres apart and can grow to a height of 30 centimetres (12 in). Many spherical or ovate side-shoots branch off these and give the seaweed its name of sea grapes. [3] Like other members of the order Bryopsidales, each C. racemosa plant consists of a single enormous cell with a large number of nuclei.
Limu, otherwise known as rimu, remu or ʻimu (from Proto-Austronesian *limut) [1] is a general Polynesian term for edible plants living underwater, such as seaweed, or plants living near water, like algae. [2] [3] In Hawaii, there are approximately one hundred names for kinds of limu, sixty of which can be matched with scientific names. [4]
Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of green seaweed, an alga of the genus Caulerpa, native to tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Caribbean Sea. [2] The species name taxifolia arises from the resemblance of its leaf-like fronds [3] to those of the yew (Taxus).
Caulerpa longifolia, commonly known as feather caulerpa or long-filament caulerpa, [1] is a species of seaweed in the Caulerpaceae family. [2]The seaweed has a coarse stolon with medium to dark green fronds reaching 15 to 65 centimetres (5.9 to 25.6 in) in height and 1 to 3 cm (0.39 to 1.18 in) wide. [2]