Everlasting Flowers

Anemones look like colorful flowers, but they are animals.

Their beautiful petals are actually tentacles with poisonous barbs, which can kill small crabs, fishes, and plankton that are their prey.
Anemones can live for several hundred years if they are not disturbed.
 
Anemone on a kelp holdfast:
 
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