This likely makes this particularly impressive specimen of Fucus vesiculosus, also known as bladderwrack, the largest cloned organism in the world. Originally, scientists thought (via DNA sequencing) ...

Marine biologists at the University of Gothenburg have identified what may be the world’s largest known clonal organism—a vast expanse of bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) spanning over 300 ...

The two species in question are common bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) and narrow wrack (Fucus radicans), the latter of which was thought to be a prevalent species in the Gulf of Bothnia ...