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It is textured to allow coral polyps to attach.
It's making copies of its polyps, it's fighting back the algae and it's reclaiming its territory.
If a few polyps survive, a coral can regrow; it just needs time and protection and a reasonable temperature.
In this photo, this little baby coral, this little circle of polyps, is a few years old.
Each coral head consists of thousands of individual polyps.
These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
The zoophyte branch offered some very unusual specimens from its two groups, the polyps and the echinoderms.
The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum.
Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that were like fine lace embroidered by the hands of water nymphs, their festoons swaying to the faint undulations caused by our walking.
Among other specimens from these waterways, our nets brought up some peacock-tailed flabellarian coral, polyps flattened into stylish shapes and unique to this part of the ocean.
Thanks to the work of polyps, a slow but steady upheaval will someday connect these islands to each other.
These polyps grow exclusively in the agitated strata at the surface of the sea, and so it's in the upper reaches that they begin these substructures, which sink little by little together with the secreted rubble binding them.
As for our craft, it no longer stirred, staying as motionless as if these coral polyps had already walled it in with their indestructible cement.
In the zoophyte branch, class Alcyonaria, one finds the order Gorgonaria, which contains three groups: sea fans, isidian polyps, and coral polyps.
These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life.
Amid these shrubs of precious coral, I observed other polyps no less unusual: melita coral, rainbow coral with jointed outgrowths, then a few tufts of genus Corallina, some green and others red, actually a type of seaweed encrusted with limestone salts, which, after long disputes, naturalists have finally placed in the vegetable kingdom.
We dig the graves, then entrust the polyps with sealing away our dead for eternity!"
Besides, the ship had a good stock of the madrepore Dendrophylia, known in Provence by the name sea fennel, and a poultice made from the dissolved flesh of its polyps will furnish an excellent cough medicine.
Our dragnets brought up many specimens of polyps and echinoderms plus some unusual shells from the branch Mollusca.