Kombu
Saccharina japonica
Saccharina japonica or kombu (/ˈkɒmbuː/, from Japanese konbu referring to the algae in the family Laminariaceae) is a marine species of Phaeophyceae (brown algae), a type of kelp or seaweed, that is extensively cultivated on ropes in between the seas of Japan and Korea. It is widely eaten in East Asia. A commercially important species, Saccharina japonica is known as called ma-konbu (真昆布) in Japanese, dasima (다시마) in Korean, and hǎidài (海带) in Chinese. Large harvests...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 194654.