Valonia Potbellied: A giant unicellular organism that can be as small as a Microbia or as big as your hand!

Have you heard about Valonia potbellied? This is such a giant single-celled organism that can be so small that even Microbia can't see it, or so big that it won't fit in your hand! This is a green ball that feels like jelly in polyethylene. Inside it there is a cytoplasm with organelles, which gives it such a volume.

This miracle yudo usually grows alone in tropical and subtropical zones near the Caribbean Islands, as well as in the Indo-Pacific region. It also occurs at a depth of up to 80 meters. If the water is clean enough, then the color of the algae may appear silver, the color of the sea wave and even blackish due to the mirror-shiny surface of its body.

But the most interesting thing is that this organism reproduces with the help of segregation cell division, in which a multinucleated parent cell generates daughter cells-rhizoids. Rhizoids form a new bubble and separate from the parent organism, becoming completely independent of it.

But the funny thing is that this unicellular algae does not have water capillary pores in the membrane, which means that water passes into the cell immediately and exits it using conventional diffusion. This is definitely an evolutionary success!