July 17, 2012
NYBG isn’t big on marine species, so seeing this incredible seaweed—widely held as the world’s largest single-cell organism—stopped me in my tracks. It looks like a garden gazing ball, or a witch ball. It is, in a word, stunning. ~AR explosionsoflife: This odd green seaweed, known as Sailor’s Eyeball (Valonia ventricosa), looks like a dark green marble, and consists of a single large cell attached to the substrate by a cluster of filaments called rhizoids. Younger plants have a bluish sheen, but older ones become overgrown with incrusting coralline red seaweeds.

NYBG isn’t big on marine species, so seeing this incredible seaweed—widely held as the world’s largest single-cell organism—stopped me in my tracks. It looks like a garden gazing ball, or a witch ball. It is, in a word, stunning. ~AR

explosionsoflife:

This odd green seaweed, known as Sailor’s Eyeball (Valonia ventricosa), looks like a dark green marble, and consists of a single large cell attached to the substrate by a cluster of filaments called rhizoids. Younger plants have a bluish sheen, but older ones become overgrown with incrusting coralline red seaweeds.

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