Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 50 feet

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 50 feet

Kaiona, Waimanalo, Oahu, 5 feet

Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 2 feet

Kaiona, Waimanalo, Oahu, 5 feet

Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 2 feet

Spawning, Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 2 feet

Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 8 feet

Tumor, Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 8 feet

Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 3 feet

Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 8 feet

Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 3 feet

Kapoho tidepool, Hawaii

Kaiona, Waimanalo, O'ahu, 8 feet

Tumor, Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 15 feet

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

Fluorescent, HIMB, Kane'ohe, Oahu

Daylight fluorescent, Makapu'u, Oahu, 25 feet

Common in a variety of habitats and possessing many growth forms including encrusting patches, large mounds, branched thickets, and overlapping plates.  Brown and white, occasionally with pink, green or blue fluorescence.  Tiny calices are surrounded by rice-like tubercles that rarely fuse into short ridges.  Spawning occurs after the new moon during summer months about 9:00 PM.  Hawaii to Indonesia.  Formerly known in Hawaii as Montipora verrucosa.

All coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to 1998.