Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in sun.
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?
What is shallow seagrass beds?
Looks like a smooth, dark green, miniature water balloon.
What is Sailor’s eye?
Attach by a hold fast to rock in turbulent waters.
What is Three-cornered Hat algae
Type of algae farmed as seafood and are an important part of the Asian-food lover’s diet.
What is red algae?
Has pale-pink branches with stubby branchlets. May be yellowish or pale green.
What is spiny seaweed?
Looks like thin broccoli floret, or something that could efficiently apply shaving cream.
What is shaving brush algae?
Has flat, olive-brown fronds with smooth margins and blunt tips that fork into even branches of two.
What is dictyota?
Crushed skeletons of red algae(s) that are sources of beach sand.
What is thicket and branching coralline algae?
Grows in wiry, tangled yellowish-brown clumps. Branch tips frequently end in sickle hooks.
What is hypnea?
Has slightly twisted, dark-green straps with slender stalks attached to rhizomes.
What is common caulerpa?
Washes ashore as individual or clustered green-brown bubbles that appear partially flattened.
What is balloon seaweed?
Green algae that makes up much of the coarse, white beach in the keys.
What is pulverized cactus algae?
Grows in large calm lagoons and often lives as unattached drift algae.
What is Graceful redweed?
Grow on nearshore reef out to 50ft.
What is green fleece algae?
Greenish-brown, fan-shape fronds with an in-rolled outer margin.
What is padina?
A single enormous cell, one of the largest known to science.
What is Sailor’s eye?
Have numerous bubble-like branchlets.
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