Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Padina
Padina pavonica
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature14–26 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size15 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
Full profile
- Family
- Dictyotaceae
- Origin
- Mediterranean and Atlantic
- Size
- 5 – 15 cm
- Temperature
- 14 – 26°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.025 – 1.028
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Water type
- marine
- Light
- medium – high
- Fertilization
- absorbs nutrients from the water
- Growth
- medium
- Position
- on a rock
- Propagation
- spores
Notes: Fan-shaped brown algae with white calcified bands. Typical of Mediterranean rocks.
