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?
What isgrape caulerp?
Long,with yellow rhizomes and green branche.
What is balloon seawee?
It’s always flattened and clumps together
Red algae have a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light, allowing the plants to live at greater depths than green plants.
Many red algae are farmed as seafood and are an important part of the Asian-food lover's diet.
What is red spineweed?
has brown-red branches with tiny, stiff, pointed branchlets in whorls of three
What is com caulerpa?
Dark green with slender stalks attached to rhi
What is iridescent banded algae?
It’s flat and does not curl at the ends
The bubble-branchlets of red grapes contain sugars and protein for buoyancy so that strands remain upright in water.
The crushed skeletons of thicket algae and branching coralline algae are sources of beach sand.
What is spiny seaweed?
has fragile, pale-pink branches with stubby branchlets. Colors also may be yellowish or pale green.
What is sailor‘s eye
Looks smoot,dark green,miniature waterballon?
What is padina
It’s green and brownish with fromds
A toxic, alien species of caulerpa from the Tropics has invaded the Mediterranean Sea and is causing big ecological troubles.
The invaders may be clones of a single released aquarium plant
What is graceful red weed?
has greenish to bright-red, forked branches like sinuous clumps of spaghetti. This alga quickly bleaches clear.
what is green fleece
Has forked,spongy,in the water it comes together
What is dictyota?
It’s flat with brown fronds and smooth margins
Much of the coarse, white beach in the Keys is made of pulverized cactus algae that grew recently, or as much as tens of thousands of years ago.
Shaving brush and other treelike green algae are coenocytic, meaning that there is no distinction between individual cells, with direct connections of cytoplasm
What is hypnea?
Grows in wiry, tangled yellowish brown clumps