Laverbread - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 78820 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | NONE Porphyra umbicallis | Entry Book Number | 3:2005 | |
| Artefact Name | Laverbread | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Laverbread | Geography Description | South Wales | ||
| Uses | LaverbreadUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Helen Sanderson | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 22/11/2005 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Laura Giuffrida | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/06/2002 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Laverbread produced from edible seaweed. Porphyra is thoroughly washed to remove the sand and is boiled for several hours. A traditional food of South Wales. It is traditionally eaten with bacon fat and oatmeal. Also collected on the north coast of Devona, nd Cornwall by 15-20 pickers. The seaweed grows on rocky shorelines throughout coastal Britain. x0Dx0ASustainable harvesting can be carried out if the seaweed is cut, rather than pulled, which avoids damage to holdfasts.x0Dx0A | ||||