Channel Wrack / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Channel Wrack Botanical Name Pelvetia canaliculata Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Fucaceae Habitat Channel wrack is one of the first wracks that you tend to find as you move from land to…
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Sea Lettuce / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Sea lettuce, Sea Salad Botanical Name Ulva lactuca Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Ulvales Family – Ulvaceae Habitat Found growing on rocks and in sandy rockpools. It prefers sheltered areas. A very commonly found…
Bladderwrack / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Rockweed, Seawrack Botanical Name Fucus vesiculosus Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Fucaceae Habitat This seaweed likes to be between the high and low watermarks, spending a fair amount of time submerged. Found across…
Sugar Kelp / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Sea-belt, Sugar Wrack Botanical Name Laminaria saccharina, Saccharina latissima Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Laminariales Family – Laminariaceae Habitat This seaweed is fond of low water, sheltered areas with fast-moving flows. It dislikes exposed…
Laver / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Nori (but not the varieties found in Britain) Botanical Name Porphyra spp, including umbilicalis, leucosticta, linearis. All these species are edible and functionally the same, and often professionals in science and foraging struggle to distinguish the precise…
Kelp / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Kelp refers to a group of brown seaweeds that have a very sturdy, handlike holdfast, a long stipe (stalk), long fronds and a tendency to grow in dense clumps that look like underground forests in the…
Pepper Dulse / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Pepper dulse, Truffle of the Sea Botanical Name Osmundea pinnatifida Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Ceramiales Family – Rhodomelaceae Habitat Pepper Dulse likes rocky shores a little further towards the water than the wracks, but…
Sea Spaghetti / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Common Names Sea spaghetti, Thongweed Botanical Name Himanthalia elongata Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Himanthaliaceae Habitat Thongweed grows on hard substrates like rock and is to be often to be found between the wracks and kelps.…
Scots Pine / All Year Round / Edible Common Names Scots Pine, Scots fir, European redwood Botanical Name Pinus Sylvestris Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order – Pinales Family – Pinaceae Physical Characteristics for Scots Pine A tall, evergreen tree (up to 30m) with a flat or domed top. One…
Shaggy Parasol / Summer / Autumn / Edible Scientific Name Chlorophyllum Rhacodes Common Names Shaggy Parasol Family Agaricaceae Habitat They are saprotrophic and can be found in most types of woodland but most commonly they are found near conifers. Description A fairly common mushroom sometimes found in large troops, they…