of the seaweed tastes like bacon when fried. Distribution P. palmata is the only species of Palmaria found on the coast of Atlantic Europe. It can be found from Portugal to the Baltic coasts and on the coasts of Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It also grows on the shores of Arctic Russia, Arctic Canada, Atlantic Canada, Alaska, Japan, and Korea. Records of P. palmaria from California are actually of Palmaria mollis. Parasites and diseases Galls, possibly produced by parasitic nematodes, copepods, or bacteria, are known to infect these plants. They were recorded as "outgrowths of tissue produced by the presence...of an animal." References Further reading Grubb, V.M. 1923. Preliminary note on the reproduction of Rhodymenia palmata, Ag. Annals of Botany 37: 151–52. Pueschel, C.M. 1979. Ultrastructure of the tetrasporogenesis in Palmaria palmata (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 15: 409–424. South, G.R. and Hooper, R.G. 1980. A Catalogue and Atlas of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Island of Newfoundland. pp. 1–136. Memorial University of Newfoundland Occasional Papers in Biology. Lennon, B.W. and Doyle, E. Wild Food. The O'Brien Press, Dublin. External links AlgaeBase Palmaria palmata at Michael Guiry's Seaweed Site Cuisine of Atlantic Canada Icelandic cuisine Cuisine of Northern Ireland Irish cuisine Florideophyceae Edible seaweeds Species described in 1753 Edible algae