Gelidium is a genus of thalloid red algae comprising 134 species. Its members are known by a number of common names. [note 1] Specimens can reach around 2–40 cm (0.79–16 in) in size. Branching is irregular, or occurs in rows on either side of the main stem. Gelidium produces tetraspores. Many of the algae in this genus are used to make agar. [1] .

Gelidium is a small, slow growing plant, and although efforts to cultivate it in tanks and ponds have been biologically successful, it has so far proved to be uneconomic. Gelidium grows best where there is rapid water movement: the eulittoral and sublittoral zones.

Gelidium sesquipedale is a commercially important species of red algae. It is a thalloid seaweed, branching on a single axis. A clonal species, it grows in stands on rocky bottoms in the subtidal zone in areas with high water movement and exposed to wave action.

Best known as a solidifying component of bacteriological culture media, it is also used in canning meat, fish, and poultry; in cosmetics, medicines, and dentistry; as a clarifying agent in brewing and wine making; as a thickening agent in ice…

Gelidium amansii, also known as by its Korean name umutgasari, [1] is an economically important species of red algae commonly found and harvested in the shallow coast (3 to 10 m or 10 to 33 ft of depth below the water) of many East Asian countries including North and South Korea, China, Japan, Singapore, and northeast Taiwan.

2023年5月29日 · Gelidium is one of the agar-producing red macroalgae and has been used as sea vegetable, human food and as traditional herb medicine in East Asian countries. Gelidium has been used as a food ingredient for centuries by boiling it …

Gelidium is a genus of thalloid red algae comprising 124 species.Its members are known by a number of common names. Specimens can reach around 2–40 cm (0.79–16 in) in size. Branching is irregular, or occurs in rows on either side of the main stem.

The meaning of GELIDIUM is a genus of red algae (family Gelidiaceae) having cartilaginous terete or compressed much-branched fronds and cystocarps immersed in swollen branchlets and being important sources of agar.

2024年9月14日 · Welcome to the fascinating world of Jellyweeds (Gelidium), a delightful group of red algae that brings both beauty and utility to marine ecosystems. Often

2023年6月15日 · Gelidium is a small, delicate seaweed found in warm, temperate, and tropical regions worldwide. It belongs to the red seaweed group called Rodophyta. Gelidium is an excellent source of agar, a natural hydrocolloid used as a thickener, gelling agent, and stabilizer in various food and industrial applications.