Mozuku

Mozuku is a collective term for various types of Japanese brown algae from the family Chordariaceae, which are used as food. These include ito-mozuku (Nemacystus decipiens),^[1][2] Okinawa mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus),^[3][4] ishi-mozuku (Sphaerotrichia divaricata)^[5] and futo mozuku (Tinocladia crassa). Occasionally the aquatic flowering plant Hydrilla verticillata is referred to as mozuku.^[6]