Mil (Sea pine) - Mil (English spelling) Codium fragile

Japanese: ミル(海松) - ミル(英語表記)Codium fragile
Mil (Sea pine) - Mil (English spelling) Codium fragile
A seaweed in the family Myrtleaceae of the order Myrtle. It grows in colonies on rocky reefs close to the low tide line. The algae are 3-5 mm thick rods that branch out bifurcated several times to form a raceme. When the rods are dissected, they are revealed to be a collection of small vesicles that are connected to each other at their bases. In the case of Myrtle, the vesicles have protrusions at the apex. It is widely distributed along the coasts of Japan, as well as around the Malay Peninsula and Australia, the west coast of the United States, the Bering Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. It has long been eaten in Japan. Other species in the same genus include the involucre but thick-tipped C. contractum , the slender C. tenue , the irregular C. intricatum , the creeping C. coarctatum and C. adhaerens , as well as the clump-like C. pugniformis and C. mamillosum var. minus . Larger species include the somewhat branched, flat, string-like C. cylindricum which can reach a total length of 15m, and the flat C. latum which is 30cm wide and 1m long.

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Japanese:
緑藻類ミル目ミル科の海藻。低潮線に近い岩礁上に群生する。藻体は太さ3~5mmの棒状体が二叉的に数回分岐して総状になっている。棒状体をほぐすと小さな小嚢の集合で,それらは基部で互いに連絡している。なおミルの場合,小嚢には頂端に突起がある。日本沿海に広く分布し,マレー半島やオーストラリアの周辺,アメリカ西岸,ベーリング海,インド洋,大西洋にも分布している。日本では古くから食用にした。なお同属のものには総状であるが先の太いサキブトミル C. contractum,細い形のイトミル C. tenue,不規則な形のモツレミル C. intricatum,はう形になったネザシミル C. coarctatumやハイミル C. adhaerensのほか,塊状になったコブシミル C. pugniformisやタマミル C. mamillosum var. minus,大型になるものに,多少枝分れした平らな紐状の全長 15mにも達するナガミル C. cylindricum,平らで幅 30cm,長さ 1mになるヒラミル C. latumなどがある。

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