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Those Strange Green Blobs On Your Grass Might Be “Troll’s Butter”
Also known as troll’s butter or star jelly, Nostoc is a genus of cyanobacteria that can often form big, gelatinous colonies. Such colonies can be found in a wide range of habitats, including in ...
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That Gross Slime That Forms In Your Lawn Or On Your Driveway After It Rains May Be Essential To Human Life On Other Planets
They are actually something called Nostoc, or more casually, troll’s butter or star jelly. They are a genus of cyanobacteria and can form into very large colonies. They are found in many ...
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Unprecedented slow growth and mortality of the rare colonial cyanobacterium, Nostoc zetterstedtii, in oligotrophic lakes
Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 56, No. 6 (2011), pp. 1976-1982 (7 pages) Centimeter-large colonies of Nostoc zetterstedtii from a Swedish oligotrophic lake had the lowest growth and mortality rates ...