A red/brown variety. Photo Peet van Eeden.
A dense colony of the usual pink variety covering red bait.
More pink ones.
A red variety.
A red variety in close-up.
The unusual version with a two-colour disk.
The unusual version with a two-colour disk, zoomed in.
All other photos Guido Zsilavecz
While most commonly pink, the strawberry anemone (Corynactis annulata) can occur in slightly different colours, such as a reddish brown, and a more unusual version which has a partially white and red disk. At A-Frame the patches of the three different version can be found in some places quite close to each other - occasionally they can be mixed, but that is not common.
For more details on this species, see "A field guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula" available directly from SURG or better dive and book stores in Cape Town.
A field guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula, G Jones, 2008
Two Oceans, A guide to the marine life of Southern Africa, GM Branch, CL Griffiths, ML Branch and LE Beckley, 1994, Revised Edition 2010