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Last weekend I canoed through the bogs and marshes of the Missaguash River on the border with N.B. At several locations in Missaguash Marsh I observed a large number of floating pea-sized balls of the blue-green alga (cyanophyte) Nostoc sp., the largest concentration I'd ever seen. It looked like someone had dumped a truckload of bright green peas into the water. I simply had to taste these balls, knowing full well that certain cyanophytes produce neurotoxins. But there is some chatter on Google that these algae (or cyanobacteria) are edible. Has anyone on NatureNS eaten Nostoc? Any ill effects? Do these balls have a common English name in N.S.? Dusan Soudek P.S. A local couple we'd met had just collected three buckets of field mushrooms on a local pasture near the river. But they didn't share their fortune....
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