In the Japanese coast, mozuku grows on the shore reef lit by sunlight in the infralittoral zone during the winter and spring, but in the summer, it dies like other marine algae.
日本沿岸では冬から春にかけて、光が届く潮下帯の岩礁に生えるが、夏には他の海藻類と同様に枯れてしまう。