red algae – The Artful Amoeba http://theartfulamoeba.com A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:22:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 The Sexual Disability of Red Algae http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/01/10/the-sexual-debility-of-red-algae/ http://theartfulamoeba.com/2010/01/10/the-sexual-debility-of-red-algae/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:59:35 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=2249 For those who would like to know more about your friendly blogger, I have been interviewed by the community blog at The Reef Tank, a web site for home saltwater aquarists. In the interview, I talk about some of the peculiarities of aquatic plants and algae (including an explanation of the title of this post), what some of my formative aquatic experiences were, why I started this blog, and how an aquarium is like a hot tub. There’s more than enough to read there, so in that spirit, I’ll end this short post with an interesting picture of a red alga. Yay algae!

In spite of its sexual disability, this red alga is still very happy to see you. Close-up of Laurencia sp., a seaweed from Hawaii. Photographed by Eric Guinther. Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Click image for link.

p.s. Speaking of algae, I just painted my hall a color I’m calling “kelp green”, but which has been less charitably described by some interloping visitors as “baby poop green”. It’s kelp! Kelp, dang it!

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