Ocean West Vegetable is sheepshead, a kind of algae, alias antler tip, sea vegetable buds, sheep's milk, sea barley and so on. Cyclophyllum, Sargassum family. Algae body yellow-brown, fat and juicy, the variation of the leaf-shaped body is very large, a variety of shapes. Plant height 30-50cm, the longest up to 3m or more. It is divided into pseudoroots, trunks, leaves and air sacs. The cylindrical pseudoroot is branched.

The primary leaves below the "stem" are flat and thick, ovoid, and the posterior "leaves" at the upper part of the "stem" are rod-shaped or aubergine. Air sacs fusiform, arising from leaf axils. Dioecious, with egg and spermatophore sacs formed in the receptacle. It grows on rocks in the low-water zone, and flourishes along the coast of southern China, and is also distributed in Shandong and Liaoning.

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Sheepshead growth habit: Sheepshead growth and development season with the growth of different regions, Huang, Bohai Sea seedlings first seen in August to November, the following year, May to October maturity; the East China Sea seedlings are seen in September to the following year, February, April to August maturity; the South China Sea seedlings are very early in the maturity period, generally 2 to June (Zeng Chengkui et al. The seedlings from the South China Sea mature very early, generally from February to June (Zeng Chengkui et al. 2000). Breeding period is generally in May to October, the South due to higher temperatures, a little earlier than in the North.

The algal growth and development of C. ramosus are obviously affected by environmental factors such as temperature, light, salinity and tides, nutrient salts, etc. Among them, temperature and light are the most important factors. Among them, temperature and light are the most important influencing factors.

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