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?
Surface is occasionally covered with encrusting algae of other types
What is Sailor’s eye?
Has flat, olive-brown fronds with smooth margins and blunt tips that fork into even branches of two
What is Dictyota?
A single, enormous cell, one of the largest known to science
What is Sailor‘s eye?
Where red grapes and thicket algae grow
What is Shallow hard bottom?
Looks like a thin broccoli floret
What is Shaving brush algae?
Individual or clustered, green-brown bubble-balls that appear partially flattened
What is Balloon seaweed?
It’s bubble-branchlets contain sugars and protein for buoyancy so that strands remain upright in water
What is Red grapes?
Quickly bleaches clear
What is Graceful redweed?
Has slightly twisted, dark green straps with slender stalks attached to rhizomes
What is Common caulerpa?
Beach as golden bouquets of pyramid-shaped fronds
What is Three-cornered hat algae?
Have a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light
What is Red algae?
Grows in wiry, tangled yellowish-brown clumps
What is Hypnea?
Has forked, spongy, bright to dirty green fingers attached at a single holdfast
What is Green fleece?
Long, has smooth, brown, elongated, leathery leaves covered by faint dots
What is Attached Sargassum?
Provides a habitat life-raft for hundreds of species of animals as it drifts
What is Sargassum?
May grow in clumps attached to a shell or pebble
What is Red grapes?