The natural range for the cabbage leather coral is widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea, often in shallow water reef areas with strong currents, i… See more

The cabbage leather coral is probably best kept with other leather corals, as well as zoanthid, and mushroom coralspecies. Sinularia coral is known to be the most toxic of the … See more

These corals are thought to reproduce by fragmentation or branch dropping, as well as having larger branches divide in two. They are not particularly fast-growing leather cor… See more

The scientific name for the cabbage leather coral is Sinularia dura. The cabbage leather coral has relatively small polyps that are able to capture prey. Sinularia durais an octocoral, … See more

You may see cabbage leather corals, sinularia dura, listed under one of these other common names: carpet coral, flower leather coral, flat leather coral, leaf leather coral, lobe… See more