Species

Bladder Wrack

Phylum: CHROMOPHYCOTA

Kindom: Plantae

Size: length of body or more 150 cm plus

Sightings: 21

Description: Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common names bladder wrack, black tang, rockweed, bladder fucus, sea oak, black tany, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus, and rock wrack is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1811, and was used extensively to treat goitre, a swelling of the thyroid gland related to iodine deficiency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucus_vesiculosus

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