Chinese seaweed is not seaweed. Chinese seagrass refers to a monocotyledonous higher plant that grows in temperate and tropical coastal waters. It is a type of monocotyledonous herbaceous plant that lives in shallow waters along the coast of temperate seas. It is the whole plant of Euphyllum macrophylla. Nature and flavor are salty and cold.

Sea cabbage, also known as purple cabbage, cabbage, and cabbage, belongs to the Brassicaceae family. Porphyra is distributed all over the world and grows on rocks in the intertidal zone of shallow seas. The growth period is from December each year to May of the following year. There are many types of seaweed, and more than 70 species have been discovered. Chinese seaweed is wakame, an algae that grows in the sea. Sea cabbage is the algae of the algae plant Ulva of the family Ulvaceae. So Chinese seaweed is not sea cabbage.

Applications of seagrass

Because seagrass species are relatively single and they have lived on the seabed invisible to the naked eye for a long time, the connection between seagrass and humans has not been close in history. However, with the development of the past 100 years, As researchers turn more and more attention to these oldest species on Earth, seagrasses gradually enter the public eye and are closely related to human life.

First of all, seaweed has been utilized in fishery production because seaweed contains a large amount of edible alginic acid, starch, mannitol, potassium, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, manganese, iron, cobalt and a large amount of iodine, etc. The macronutrients and trace elements required by living organisms, and compound fertilizers mainly composed of macrophylla have become irreplaceable feeds in the cultivation of sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

Seagrass hay, especially seaweed hay of the genus Macrophyllum and Echinacea, has the characteristics of corrosion resistance and thermal insulation and durability. It is often processed into weaving, sound insulation and thermal insulation materials. In northern my country, coastal areas Fishermen often use seaweed as a roofing material, which has excellent thermal insulation and rainproof effects.