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  2. Epiphyte - Wikipedia

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    Tillandsia bourgaei growing on an oak tree in Mexico. An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

  3. Algae - Wikipedia

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    Algae can be used to capture fertilizers in runoff from farms. When subsequently harvested, the enriched algae can be used as fertilizer. Aquaria and ponds can be filtered using algae, which absorb nutrients from the water in a device called an algae scrubber, also known as an algae turf scrubber. [129] [130]

  4. The Incredible Reason Sloths Grow Algae on Their Fur - AOL

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    The algae needs nutrients to survive on the sloth’s hair. That’s where moths come in. There is a species of pyralid moth ( Cryptoses choloepi ) that only lives in sloth fur.

  5. Chara (alga) - Wikipedia

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    The plant body is a gametophyte.It consists of the main axis (differentiated into nodes and internodes), dimorphic branches (long branch of unlimited growth and short branches of limited growth), rhizoids (multicellular with oblique septa) and stipulodes (needle-shaped structures at the base of secondary laterals).

  6. Trentepohlia aurea - Wikipedia

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    Trentepohlia aurea is a species of filamentous terrestrial green alga with a worldwide distribution. It grows on rocks, old walls and the trunks and branches of trees such as oaks, elms, and the Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa).

  7. Green algae - Wikipedia

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    Trentepohlia is a filamentous green alga that can live independently on humid soil, rocks or tree bark or form the photosymbiont in lichens of the family Graphidaceae. Also the macroalga Prasiola calophylla (Trebouxiophyceae) is terrestrial, [ 10 ] and Prasiola crispa , which live in the supralittoral zone , is terrestrial and can in the ...

  8. Algal nutrient solution - Wikipedia

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    Algae Covered Pond. Algal nutrient solutions are made up of a mixture of chemical salts and seawater. [1] Sometimes referred to as "Growth Media", nutrient solutions (e.g., the Hoagland solution, along with carbon dioxide and light), provide the materials needed for algae to grow.

  9. Newton High School seniors experiment with algae's viability ...

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    Garton said one the endemic algae species died, which required him and Van Kley to collect more. The two also had difficulty taking the mass of the chlorella algae, partly because it was so small.