This another species of Kelp you can find in the UK, but is less common than Laminaria digitata, which tends to form much larger kelp beds. Still important this kelp species can be easily told apart both by shape, this is long and doesnt fork, and by texture is all crinkily and much less slimy than the other. Names sugar kelp because when dried and powdered is sweet to taste, and actually a lot of products are beginning to use sugar kel p as flavouring!