There is a gigantic colony of Porites lutea coral living in the bottom of the inner bay of Oshima Island in Mugi, which has a distinctive shape that leaf-like elements are piled upto nine meters high, and whose age is estimated to be well over one thousand years old.

#321 Coral

Type

Areals

Place

Mollusco Mugi

Area

Mugi, Tokushima

Country

Japan

Date

9 August 2011

The place and area names are as of the visited points of time.