{"id":209,"date":"2021-07-10T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2021-07-10T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:40:19","slug":"penicillus-dumetosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Penicillus dumetosus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This beautiful species of Penicillus<\/em> is very similar in appearance to P. capitatus<\/em>, but it’s more heavily calcified and features a short stem, with coarse bristle-like filaments. These particular plants grow much larger than other species of Penicillus<\/em>, up to 8″ tall. A distinct characteristic of this calcareous algae is that the top is more tapered and flat like a shaving brush which is the common name for this algae. It’s abundant on the reef flat and among sea grass beds in sandy substrate.  It’s root-like structure is a large bulb with a series of rhizoids that anchor it to substrate and sometimes hardbottom. It occurs in shallow calm protected water to depths of 40 ft. In the aquarium the mature plant often dies to produce new plants at it’s base. Like most calcareous stem plants, it needs a deep sand bed of 4″ or more to grow in the aquarium. Calcium supplementation is needed. Not palatable to fish or invertebrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientific Name: Penicillus dumetosus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common Name: Mermaid’s Shaving Brush<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin: Atlantic, Caribbean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth Collected: 1-30 Feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Height : 8″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth Rate: Moderate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light: Moderate to High<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature: 76-86<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Propagation: Fragmentation, Sporulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficulty: Easy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food Value: Not Palatable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrient Uptake: Fair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flow Rate: Low to Moderate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This beautiful species of Penicillus is very similar in appearance to P. capitatus, but it’s more heavily calcified and features a short stem, with coarse bristle-like filaments. These particular plants grow much larger than other species of Penicillus, up to 8″ tall. A distinct characteristic of this calcareous algae is that the top is more … Continue reading “Penicillus dumetosus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcareous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.marineplantbook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}