Common name: leafy bryozoan
Scientific name: Flustra foliacea
Locations: subtidal on sand and cobble bottoms
Seasonality: available year round
Colors: brown, yellow-brown
Size: 2” - 4"
Collected: by hand
Quantity: sold by the each
Common name: leafy bryozoan
Scientific name: Flustra foliacea
Locations: subtidal on sand and cobble bottoms
Seasonality: available year round
Colors: brown, yellow-brown
Size: 2” - 4"
Collected: by hand
Quantity: sold by the each
Tidepool Tim says, "Leafy bryozoans have wide, flat leaves that look like potato chips texture wise. We do not have any Flustra in our protected bays. In order to collect this, I have to travel to the open ocean shores and tidepools. Lots of this bryozoan wash ashore after fall and winter storms.”
