{"id":1695,"date":"2026-01-10T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:32:59","slug":"cauliflower-coral-phu-quoc-island-coral-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/en\/cauliflower-coral-phu-quoc-island-coral-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"CAULIFLOWER CORAL \u2013 PHU QUOC ISLAND CORAL OBSERVATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pocillopora meandrina, commonly known as\u00a0cauliflower coral<\/em>, is a species of coral occurring in the Indo-Pacific and Pacific oceans. As this coral lives in shallow reef environments then we found the domination of this species at the depth of 1m \u2013 1.5m most of coral reefs in Phu Quoc, such as at Coral Steep (a coral reef located in South Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam) and\u00a0Northeast Coral Reef<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Coral Jungle Reef<\/a>\u00a0(North Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam)<\/p>\n

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Cauliflower coral at Coral Steep in Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam diving & snorkeling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Under sunlight, cauliflower coral extend their tiny tentacles from polyps to absorb the energy, and the coral they takes carbon from algae and seawater, turns it into calcium carbonate, and uses this chalky substance to build an internal skeleton. In the Phu Quoc\u00a0Coral Jungle Reef<\/a>\u00a0which is the healthiest coral reef of Phu Quoc, you could see gardens of cauliflower corals in close distance.<\/p>\n

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Colorful Cauliflower coral at Coral Jungle Reef, Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pocillopora meandrina, commonly known as\u00a0cauliflower coral, is a species of coral occurring in the Indo-Pacific and Pacific oceans. As this coral lives in shallow reef environments then we found the domination of this species at the depth of 1m \u2013 1.5m most of coral reefs in Phu Quoc, such as at Coral Steep (a coral…[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}