How to make wakame

Chinese name:裙带菜

The sporophyte of Wakame is yellowish-brown and looks like a broken banana leaf fan. It is 1-2m high and 50-100mm wide. It clearly differentiates into three parts: fixator, stalk and leaf. The fixator is composed of forked branched false roots. The ends of the false roots are slightly thicker to fix on the rock. The stalk is slightly longer, oblate, and the middle is slightly raised. The middle part of the leaf has a middle rib extending from the stalk. , Forming feathery lobes on both sides. There are many small black spots on the leaf surface, which are the openings of mucous gland cells to the surface. The internal structure is very similar to that of kelp . On both sides of the growing sporophyte stalk, there are fungus -like overlapping folds of sporophytes. When mature, sporangia are formed on the sporophytes. The life history of wakame is very similar to that of kelp , and generations are alternated, but the growth time of sporophyte is shorter than kelp, nearly one year (the growth of kelp is nearly two years), and the growth time of gametophyte is longer than kelp, about 1 month ( The growth of kelp gametophytes generally only takes two weeks).