Nostoc: Mysterious Mucus Piles

In the 1820s, a man named Dr. R. Brandes walked through a meadow on a quest to try and answer a centuries-old question about a mysterious gelatinous substance on the ground known as “star jelly.”

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SOURCES:
https://www.aaas.org/discovery-bacteria
https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/711578
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/AG430
http://cfb.unh.edu/phycokey/Choices/Cyanobacteria/cyano_filaments/cyano_unbranched_fil/untapered_filaments/heterocysts/vis_sheath/NOSTOC/Nostoc_key.html
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