It grows in the inner bay with calm wind and waves, the tidal flat or stone marsh in the middle intertidal zone. Or on the muddy beach in the calm inner bay. China's coastal areas are all distributed, and Zhejiang and Fujian coastal areas grow more.
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Cauliflower is a rare and endangered aquatic medicinal plant endemic to China. It is very sensitive to water pollution. As long as the water is polluted, cauliflower will die. In Yunnan, it mainly grows in Lijiang, Jianchuan, Eryuan, Dali Erhai, Dongchuan, Kunming Dianchi, Jiangchuan and Shiping in south-central Yunnan.
It is also distributed in Butuo in southwest Sichuan, Guiding and Pingtang in central Guizhou to Anlong and Weining in southwest China, Jingxi and Debao in western Guangxi and Wenchang in Hainan Province.
Algae mainly grow in lakes, ponds, ditches and deep-water fields below 2700 meters above sea level. However, it has been extinct in most heavily polluted plateau lakes such as Dianchi Lake (Kunming, Yunnan), Yilong Lake (Shiping, Yunnan) and Qilu Lake (Yuxi, Yunnan).