Spirogyra
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Description: Article by Jan Parmentia on this green alga and its reproductive methods, with several photographs.
In almost every ditch in Holland with reasonably clean water we will in summer find slimy masses of filamentous algae, floating as scum on the surface. It looks rather distasteful, but a ditch like that is not polluted, only eutrophic (rich in nutrients). In spring these filamentous algae grow under water but when there is enough sunlight and the temperatures are not too low, they produce a lot of oxygen, sticking in little bubbles between the tangles of the algae. These come to the surface and become visible as slimy green masses. In these tangles we will find mainly three types of filamentous algae,
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| Page title: | Spirogyra |
| Keywords: | conjugation, filamentous algae, microscopy, nature photography, natural history, biology, microscopy, photomicrography, microscopy-uk, amateur microscopy, Micscape, ditch, pond, life, water, freshwater algae, Gamophyta, green algae, pond scum |
| Description: | microscopic algae, micro organisms |
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