ID'd by my daughter Beth; who avers these familiar plants are edible.
I couldn't resist the red-red of this bit of sea weed against the salt-and-pepper effect of the black rock and white shell beach.
The red algae (or Rhodophyta, pronounced /roʊˈdɒfɨtə/, /ˌroʊdəˈfaɪtə/, from Greek: ῥόδον (rhodon) = rose + φυτόν (phyton) = plant, thus red plant) are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae, and also one of the largest, with about 5,000–6,000 species of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds. Other references indicate as many as 10,000 species; more detailed counts indicate ~4000 in ~600 genera (3738 marine spp in 546 genera and 10 orders (plus...
