
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- bladders 2
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on rocky shore / close-up 1
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on rocky shore / close-up 2
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on rocky shore / close-up 3
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- rocky shore 1
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- rocky shore 2
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- rocky shore 3
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- rocky shore 4
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- rocky shore 5
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on estuary beach 1
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on estuary beach 2
Bladder Wrack
Fucus vesiculosus
- on pier wall 1
One of the most common and easily recognisable seaweeds, found on the upper and middleshore across the region; often found in sheltered rocky locations on the coast and very within estuaries such as the Tamar, Lynher and Tavy near Plymouth.
Species photographed at the following locations; Mutton Cove, Mount Wise, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, 08.09.05; Spit Point, Par, near St. Austell, Cornwall, 27.06.10; Chimney Rocks, Penzance, Cornwall, 14.08.11; and at Marazion, near Penzance, Cornwall, 01.02.10.
Scientific and European Names:
Fucus vesiculosus, Bladder Wrack, Gemeiner Blasentang, Blaaswier, Varech vesiculeux, Sargazo vejigoso.
Also see - Fucus vesiculosus var. linearis syn. Fucus vesiculosus forma evesiculosus.
