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"), Okinawa mozuku ("Cladosiphon okamuranus"), ishi-mozuku ("Sphaerotrichia divaricata") and futo mozuku ("Tinocladia crassa"). Occasionally the aquatic flowering plant "Hydrilla verticillata" is referred to as mozuku.