Porites Lutea Coral or Hump Coral – A Genus of Stony Coral: I am an alive Coral but not a dead Rock

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Porites Lutea Coral or Hump Coral - A Genus of Stony Coral: I am an alive Coral but not a dead Rock
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Healthy coral Colony at the Coral Jungle Reef, Phu Quoc Island, VietnamA lot of people are confused about this coral and they don’t mind standing on them, in this post, the OnBird team will be sharing with you amazing information about this massive coral, and why it is important and called “reef builders”.

There are many different coral species with different amazing shapes and colors but many people don’t know or ignore one of the most important corals in every coral reef the one that can help us to find out the age of the reefs, the one has no colorful outward appearance like others, the one that many people think it is dead rock and stand on them

Porites Lutea Coral or Hump Coral - A Genus of Stony Coral: I am an alive Coral but not a dead Rock
Porites Lutea Coral or Hump Coral – A Genus of Stony Coral: I am an alive Coral but not a dead Rock

Massive Porites or Porite Lutea or Hump Corals are some of the most important reef-building corals and often constitute the major proportion of corals in nearshore locations

A kid seeing Sea worm living a huge Stony Coral at Crystal Reef  - Kids snorkeling in Phu Quoc
A kid and his father were looking at the Hump Coral on the Marine Life Discovery Snorkeling by OnBird seeing Sea worm living on a huge Porite Coral at Crystal Reef  – Kids snorkeling in Phu Quoc

 

Healthy coral Colony at the Coral Jungle Reef, Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam
Acopora corals and cauliflower corals grown on hump coral in the Coral Jungle Reef, Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam