Scientific name | Examples of common names used for different kinds of brown algae & uses‡ |
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Laminaria spp
(eg.Laminaria japonica) | Aokombu, Atlantic kombu, common kelp, Cow’s tail, cuvie, cuvy, fingered tangle, Haidai Dashima, Horsetail tangle, horsetail kelp, kelp, Kombu, kombu Breton, Konbu, may weed, oarweed, oarweed kelp, Saccharina japonica (previously recognised name), sea club, sea girdle/s, sea-girdles, sea rod/s, sea tangle, sea wand, slack marrow, Suboshi kombu, tangle, Wild kelp, southern stiff-stiped kelp, split blade kelp, split-fan kelp, split kelp, stiff-stiped kelp, red ware, red wrack, redware, Hai-tai.
Uses: Dashi, salads, fried, soups, sauces, added to rice, beverages , sashimi, Kombucha (seaweed tea) |
Undaria spp | apron-ribbon vegetable, Asian kelp, Japanese kelp, sea mustard, wakame, precious sea grass, fougère des mers, kada-me, , mekabu, niki-me, wakame, haiboshi wakame, haijiecai, Quandai-cai, miyeok.
Uses: Miso soup, salads |
Sargassum spp
(eg. Sargassum fusiforme) | Binder's Sargassum Weed, common kelp, cattle sargassum weed, gulf weed, gulfweed, holly limu, Japanese sargasso weed, Japanese weed, Japanese wireweed, japweed, sargassum algae, sargassum grass, strangleweed, tuna weed, turtle limu, wireweed, Sargasse, Sargasso, Hijiki, hiziki, Hoshi hiziki, Deer tail grass, Sheep nest grass, Hizikia fusiformis, hondawara, tama-hahaki-moku, , hai ti tun, hoi tsou.
Uses: Vegetable, Soup, stir fries |
Cladosiphon okamuranus | Mozuku
Uses: Salads, supplements |
Alaria spp.
(eg. Alaria esculenta) | Atlantic wakame, badderlocks, bladder locks, bladderlochs, bladderlock/s, dabberlocks, daberlocks, drilly kelp, edible focus, edible kelp, henware, honey ware, honeyware, horsetail kelp, Irish wakame, keys, murlins, oarweed, Pacific coast wakame, Pacific wakame, ribbon kelp, short stipe alaria, stringy kelp, tangle, wakame, wild Atlantic wakame, wing kelp, winged kelp, American wakame
Uses: Salads, vegetable |
Eisenia spp.
(e.g. Eisenia bicyclis) | Kelp, sea oak, southern sea pal, Arame, Kajimi, Sagarame
Uses: Vegetable, Garnish, Salads, pickles |
Ecklonia spp.
(eg. Ecklonia maxima) | common kelp, leather kelp, paddle weed, sea bamboo, Kajime, kamtae |
Fucus spp.
(e.g. Fucus vesiculosus) | Arctic wrack, black tang, black tany, black wrack, blackweed, bladder fucus, bladder wrack, bladderwrack, bubble kelp, dyer's fucus, dyers fucus, flat wrack, fucus, fucus tips, horned wrack, jelly bags, kelp, kelp-ware, lady wrack, paddy tang, popping wrack, popweed, red fucus, rock weed, rock wrack, rockweed, rockwrack, saw wrack, sea oak, sea ware, sea wrack, sea-ware, serrated wrack, spiral wrack, spiraling rockweed, spiralled wrack, swine tang, toothed wrack, varech, Wrack, Cut weed.
Uses: Additives , Flavourings, food supplements |
Durvillaea spp.
(e.g. Durvillaea Antarctica) | Antarctica algae, bull kelp, Cape kelp, Cape, Thonged, Cochayuyo, Huilte, Ulte, coyofe,Cochajugo, Chamisso, Hulpe, rimurapa, rimuroa, southern bull-kelp
Uses: Stews, salads |
Ascophyllum spp.
(e.g. Ascophyllum nodosum) | Asco, egg wrack, Grisetang, knobbed wrack, knotted kelp, knotted wrack, lichen belt, Norwegian kelp, pigweed, rock weed, rockweed, sea whistle, wrack, yellow tang
Uses: Alginate, seaweed meal |
Postelsia spp. (e.g.
Postelsia palmaeformis) | sea palm, sea palm kelp, Palm seaweed
Uses: Chinese dishes |