

Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 1
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 2
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 3
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 4
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 5
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 6
Dabberlocks, Badderlocks or Murlins
Alaria esculenta
- in lowershore gully 7
Photographed in gullies on a low spring tide at Stackhouse Cove near Rosudgeon, Cornwall. 21.01.11. SW5492028165. Also found in small amounts on the lowershore at Skilly, south of Newlyn, Penwith, Cornwall.
'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.
