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Codium edule
About
Codium edule is a green alga common on shallow reef flats from the intertidal to the subtidal in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. The species is common in Hawaiʻi where it is usually called wāwaeʻiole and considered an edible alga or limu. Prominent ethnobotanist Isabella Abbott described its usage in her writing.
- Family
- Codiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Codium edule
- Slug
- codium-edule
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Codiaceae
- Genus
- Codium
- Species
- edule
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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