When the barnacles are 'ripe', the 'flowers' on them can be harvested for materials and meta-alloys. Meta alloys are worth around 100,000 Credits each
As seen here, there are big 'flowers'(meta-alloys) and small 'flowers' (materials).
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Description:
See the Canonn codex entry on Barnacles for a description. For the locations they are listed here