Black Coral Tree
Antipathes spp.
Antipathidaemacro3m / 10ft (colony height)Data Deficient
About Black Coral Tree.
Colonial coral that builds branched, tree-like colonies on shaded deep walls and beneath overhangs. The living tissue is pale gold to grey — the name comes from the dark horn-like skeleton underneath, not from the colour a diver sees.
Where it lives.
Shaded deep walls, overhangs and ledges below roughly 30m
How it behaves.
Sessile colonial filter feeder; slow-growing and long-lived