photos of Dirk Schories, Germany: specimens from Chile
This large spectacular species with column densely covered with crowded nonadhesive vesicles can be green, blue, red... It is distributed along Chilean coasts and, possibly, further to the north. Similar species from the same region is Phymanthea pluvia.
Taxonomy:
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
Order Actiniaria