A purple anemone that looks a bit like a Scottish thistle in amongst seaweed.

New Zealand’s largest sea anemone, the wandering sea anemone (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa) is here attached to a seaweed but is capable of detaching and moving around. Photo by Matt Ruglys via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NCRead more

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