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Large octocoral bush with purple base imaged in expn5301. Although there arepatches of both purple and whitish grey polyps, the purple do not seem tobe a separate colonizing coral or zoanthid species. Two large black whipcorals with white polyps are also seen. (Image credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2015 Hohonu Moana)