That text is a little confused and inaccurate. It has several facts mixed up, most notably the relationship between cyano and other organisms. It refers to cyano as bacteria, algae, a plant and a hybrid. The wiki stuff seems right, but the info in the second post is not techically correct.
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Cyano is a hybrid, a mixture between plant and bacteria. It has therefore plant, as well as bacterial characteristics and is considered the evolutionary link between plants and bacteria. The “algae-bacteria” is always present in each setup. Cyano is unicellular. It cannot be detected even when using a common microscope. What can be seen as slime are thousands of cells bound together by a protective slime coat, while some break away floating freely in the water.
Cyano, being a hybrid, is difficult to remove. Factors for growth are multiple and dealing with the algae-bacteria needs to be on multi levels in order to be effective.
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Cyano is not a hybrid of plants and bacteria. They are only plant-like in the sense that they are photosynthetic. Cyano evolved hundreds of millions of years before any plants, even before algae. How could it be a hybrid?