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Anenome: Common Anenomes, White's Beach
Seashore: Anenome: Common Anenomes, White's Beach
Actinothoe albocincta or kotare moana. These anenomes can number in the hundreds in some rock pools. About 15 mm tall. The pink weed around them is coralline algae, Corallina officinalis, which starts out as a flat pink encrustation on the rock and then gradually grows out branches.

May 2002