CINCINNATI – Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery blobs? If you've spotted any alien-looking, gelatinous globs in your yard, chances are you've stumbled ...

A few years ago in June, I was at a reception where this young man was getting ready to head into basic training. I was at the party and having fun talking to people about all sorts of things when a ...

Springtime weather brings beautiful flowers, trees and ... dark green, rubbery blobs? If you've spotted any alien-looking, gelatinous globs in your yard, chances are you've stumbled across Nostoc ...

DAYTON — As it is said, April showers bring May flowers, but it also brings a jelly-like mass to yards. The jelly-like mass is an organism called the Nostoc commune and thrives in wet conditions.

Photo courtesy of UGA CAESNostoc is a jelly-like substance with multiple common names like star jelly and witch’s butter. In its hydrated, gelatinous, green state, it can be a safety hazard. Slippery ...

Hawaiians call Nostoc commune “limu ka kanaka,” which translates to “man-striking moss.” This is due to people striking the ground hard from slipping on this alga. As Nostoc creates a danger for homes ...

The effect of combined nitrogen supplied as nitrate or ammonium-nitrogen on the growth of two nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae, Nostoc entophytum and Calothrix scopulorum, has been studied. These ...

In this month’s column of In the Grow, B. Rosie Lerner, Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulturist, addresses algae that can pop up on stone, concrete, gravel or even lawns this summer as we are getting ...

The presence of Nostoc in longitudinally oriented schizogenous canals is a feature that separates Leiosporoceros from all other hornworts and represents a novel symbiotic arrangement in land plants.