APHOTOMARINE
An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.
Alaria esculenta (Linnaeus) Greville, 1830 - Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins (Brown seaweed images)
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Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- on rocks at low tide 1
Alaria esculenta
- on rocks at low tide 1
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- on rocks at low tide 2
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- on rocks at low tide 3
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore pool 1
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 1
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 2
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 3
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 4
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 5
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 6
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gulley 7
Photographed in gullies on a low spring tide at Stackhouse Cove near Rosudgeon, Cornwall. 21.01.11. SW5492028165.
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- near Newlyn, Cornwall 1
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- near Newlyn, Cornwall 2
Dabberlocks
Alaria esculenta
- near Newlyn, Cornwall 3
Small but frequent amounts seen on a extra low water spring tide at Skilly, south of Newlyn, Cornwall, 09.04.20.
'Badderlocks' is a corruption of Balder's locks, the split fronds being likened to the locks of the Scandinavian hero Balder, to whom all plants except mistletoe swore fealty. Ref: Edward Step; By the Deep Sea. A Popular Introduction to the Wild Life of the British Shores. 1896.
Scientific and European Names:
Alaria esculenta, Dabberlocks, Badderlocks, Murlins, Winged kelp, Vingetang, Kelp.
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people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.