Anemone - Jewel

Corynactis haddoni

The jewel anemone is named for its brilliant range of colouration, Individuals may be bright orange, red, green, pink or white and the tentacles are usually contrasting colours. The body of this anemone is smooth, and squat. The mouth is in the centre of three rings of up to 100 tentacles each ending in a small bulb; this anemone grows up to 2cm in size.
Jewel anenomes live in shaded spots on exposed coasts where they are usually found underneath rocky overhangs or on vertical surfaces. They extend their tentacles and feed on drifting food particles such as planktons etc. Like other anemones, the jewel anemone can reproduce asexually by splitting, which leads to clusters of identically coloured clones, these clones joined to a common sheet-like base can often join each other forming patchwork quilts of many colours.