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{{Taxobox | color = khaki<br />
| name = Dabberlocks<br />
| regnum = [[Protista]]<br />
| phylum = [[Heterokontophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Phaeophyceae]]<br />
| ordo = [[Laminariales]]<br />
| familia = [[Alariaceae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Alaria]]''<br />
| species = '''''A. esculenta'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Alaria esculenta''<br />
| binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]) [[Greville]]<br />
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'''Alaria esculenta''' is an edible [[seaweed]], also known as '''dabberlocks''' or '''badderlocks''', or '''winged kelp'''. It is a traditional food along the coasts of the far north [[Atlantic Ocean]]. It may be eaten fresh or cooked in [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]].It is the one of twelve species of ''[[Alaria]]'' to occur in the [[British Isles]].<br />
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==Description==<br />
Grows to a maximum length of 2&nbsp;[[metre|m]]. The [[frond]] consists of a distinct midrib with wavy membranous lamina up to 7&nbsp;[[centimetre|cm]] wide on either side. The frond is unbranched. <ref name=Dickinson63>Dickinson, C.I.(1963). ''British Seaweeds.'' The Kew Series. Eyre & Spottiswoode</ref> The frond tapers towards the end. The base has a short [[stipe (botany)|stipe]] arising from a rhizoidal [[holdfast]]. The stipe may bear several sporophylls, club-shaped and up to 20&nbsp;cm long and 5&nbsp;cm broad. The whole frond is brown.<br />
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It grows from a short cylindrical [[stipe (botany)|stipe]] attached to the rocks by a [[holdfast]] of branching root-like [[rhizoid]]s, it grows to about 20 cm long. The stipe is continued into the frond forming a long conspicuous midrib without a mid-rib. The lamina is thin, membranous with a wavy margin.<ref name=Newton31>Newton, L. (1931). '' Handbook of the British Seaweeds.'' British Museum (Natural History), London.</ref><ref>[http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Alariaesculenta.htm Basic information for ''Alaria esculenta''], [[Marine Life Information Network]] (MarLIN), retrieved [[1 October]] [[2007]].</ref><br />
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==Distribution and ecology==<br />
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''Alaria esculenta'' is well known in the [[British Isles]]<ref name="algaebase">[http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=82&sk=0&from=results ''Alaria esculenta'' (Linnaeus) Greville], [[AlgaeBase]]</ref> save the south and east of [[England]].<br />
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It is a common large algae on shores where there is severe wave exposure<ref name="Hardy & Guiry03">Hardy, G. and Guiry, M.D. (2003). ''A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland.'' British Phycological Society. ISBN 0 952711516</ref> attached to rocks just below low-watermark in the "Laminaria belt", and is common on rocky shores in exposed places.<ref name=Lewis64>Lewis, J.R. (1964). ''The Ecology of Rocky Shores.'' The English Universities Press Ltd. </ref><ref name=Phillips87> Phillips, R. 1987. ''Seashells and Seaweeds.'' Elm Tree Books, London. ISBN 0241 12028 4</ref><br />
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[[Leaf|Leaf-like]] [[sporophyll]]s develop from the stipe and produce [[zoospore]]s.<ref name=Newton31/><br />
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== World Distribution ==<br />
[[Europe]]: [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]], [[Faroes]], [[Norway]], [[France]], [[Helgoland]], [[Netherlands]]. [[North America]]: [[Alaska]], [[Labrador]] and [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="algaebase"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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*{{cite book |author=M. Indergaard & J. Minsaas |chapter=Animal and Human Nutrition |title=Seaweed Resources in Europe |editor=M. D. Guiry & G. Blunden |year=1991 |pages=21–64 |id=ISBN 0-471-92947-6}}<br />
*{{cite book |author=F. G. Hardy & M. D. Guiry |year=2003 |title=A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland |Publisher=[[British Phycological Society]], London |url=http://seaweed.ucg.ie/check-list/check-list.pdf |id=ISBN 0-9527115-1-6}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.grandmanannb.com/dulse.htm |date=[[2004-05-30]] |title=Alaria or edible kelp (''Alaria esculenta'') |publisher=[[Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick]]}}<br />
*{{cite web |url=http://www.algaebase.org |title=''Alaria esculenta'' (Linnaeus) Greville |work=[[AlgaeBase]] |author=M. D. Guiry & Wendy Guiry |date=[[2006-08-30]]}}<br />
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