Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in s
What is cactus algae?
Turns dark brown on beach.
What is pelagic sargassum?
Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish
What is iridescent-banded algae?
Where branching coralline algae grows?has brown-red branches with tiny, stiff, pointed branchlets in whorls of three
What is red spine weed ?
Long, has pale yellow rhizomes with green branches bearing stubby branchlets that end in swollen tips.
What are grape caulerpa?
Beaches as individual or clustered, green-brownish bubble-balls that appear partially flattened.
What are balloon seaweed?
Has a photosynthetic pig emit that absorbs blue light, allowing the plants to live at greater depths that green plants.
What pigment does red algae have
Has fragile, pale-pink branches with stubby branchlets. Colors may be yellowish or Pape green.
What is spiny seaweed?
Long, has slightly twisted, dark-green straps with slender stalks attached to rhizomes.
What are common caulerpa?
Formed of fla, splitting, green-brown blades with concentric bands and a common holdfast.
What are iridescent-banded algae?
They are farmed as seafood and are an important part of the Asian-food lovers diet.
What are red algae farmed as
Has greenish to bright-red, forked branches like sinuous clumps of spaghetti.
What is graceful redweed?
Looks like a smooth, turgid, dark-green, miniature water balloon.
What are sailors eye?
Has greenish-brown, fan-shape fronds with an in-rolled outer margin.
What is pagina?
Iridescent-banded algae have butter chemicals to discourage grazing by fish.
What do iridescent- banded algae have?
Grows in wiry, tangled yellowish-brown clumps.
What is hypnea?
Long, has forked, spongy, bright -to dirty- green fingers attached at a single holdfast.
What is green fleece?
Has flat, olive-brown fronds woth smooth margins and blunt tips that fork into even branches of two.
What is dictyota?
A toxic, alien species of caulerpa from the Tropics has invaded the Mediterranean Sea.
What has invaded the Mediterranean Sea?
Red grapes algae, thicket alga, and coralline algae.
What are some relatives?