Nostoc - Home Garden Information Center Nostoc is a dark blue-green, jelly-like organism sometimes found in soggy home lawns While the organism’s discovery can be alarming for homeowners, it causes no harm to plants or animals The Nostoc is likely filling in space where the grass does not grow
Nostoc: The mysterious green jelly on your lawn - Gardening . . . Previously thought to be a type of blue-green algae, Nostoc is actually a cyanobacteria that likely led to the rise of the world we know today The chloroplasts in plants are believed to have evolved from these organisms
Nostoc (Algae, Witchs jelly) | North Carolina Extension . . . Nostoc spp are not plants, but rather cyanobacteria, often referred to as blue-green algae They form dark green gelatinous masses on persistently moist surfaces such as nursery ground cloth, black plastic, or gravel pads
Goodbye Green Slimy Things! A Study on Cleaning and . . . “ Nostoc ”, a green jelly-like film growing over gravel or on ground surfaces that are constantly wet, is a combination of different cyanobacteria species living together (initial observations at the NWREC Pathology Lab)
Nostoc | blue-green algae, filamentous unicellular | Britannica Nostoc, genus of blue-green algae with cells arranged in beadlike chains that are grouped together in a gelatinous mass Ranging from microscopic to walnut-sized, masses of Nostoc may be found on soil and floating in quiet water