Please ID this algae

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pwnell
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Please ID this algae

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Lost Lagoon in Vancouver is filled with this green algae. It colours the water a lime green.

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These are the blue-green algae:
Anabaena and Woronichinia or Microcystis

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Thanks Jacek.

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What kind of technique is used with the red coloured photos?
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Epi-fluorescence. What you see as red is chlorophyll.

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pwnell wrote:Epi-fluorescence. What you see as red is chlorophyll.
Ah interesting.So you can distinguish between photosynthesizing and non-photosynthesizing parts of a plant
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Indeed. I'll post an interesting image of the stomata of a fern where some parts of it are black under fluorescence, indicating some internal structure that does not contain chlorophyll.

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pwnell wrote:Indeed. I'll post an interesting image of the stomata of a fern where some parts of it are black under fluorescence, indicating some internal structure that does not contain chlorophyll.
Sounds great! (I kind of specialise in plants)
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