Sea Pork
Aplidium species
A rubbery, fatty-looking blob in pink, grey or white — a colonial tunicate, not blubber.
- Typical size
- 2–10 in
- How often it turns up
- Common
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- May be alive
Leave fresh colonies in the water where possible; dried pieces are harmless.
How to tell it apart
- Firm, rubbery, sliceable texture
- Pink, grey, white or purple
- Tiny pores dotting the surface
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