Seaweed
Nov 04, 2020
3 minutes
Words DR KAREN BRIDGMAN
espite being considered the plant foods of the future, seaweeds are not true plants — they are actually primitive multicellular marine macroalgae. Seaweeds live in seawater attached to rocks or hard ocean floors in coastal areas. Macroalgae, or seaweeds, belong to three different major groups, with countless thousands of species: brown algae (Phaeophyta), red algae (Rhodophyta) and green algae (Chlorophyta). The red and brown seaweeds live exclusively in seawater, while the green algae are also common in freshwater rivers and lakes and
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