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<p>[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 14680, member: 32"]Nice piece, love the handle. I found this info. on black coral.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Black corals</b> (<b>Antipatharia</b>) are a group of deep water, tree-like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral" rel="nofollow">corals</a> related to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anemone" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anemone" rel="nofollow">sea anemones</a>. They are also found in rare dark shallow water areas such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" rel="nofollow">New Zealand</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Sound" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Sound" rel="nofollow">Milford Sound</a> where they can be viewed from an underwater observatory or via SCUBA diving. They normally occur in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics" rel="nofollow">tropics</a>. There are about 230 known species of Antipatharians in 42 genera.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_coral#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_coral#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Though black coral's living tissue is brilliantly colored, it takes its name from the distinctive black or dark brown color of its skeleton. Also unique to black coral are the tiny spines that cover the surface of the skeleton, the origin of the nickname <b>little thorn coral</b>. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language" rel="nofollow">Hawaiian language</a>, black coral is called <i>‘ēkaha kū moana</i> and is the official state gem of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" rel="nofollow">Hawaii</a>. Black coral is listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITES" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITES" rel="nofollow">CITES</a>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="spirit-of-shiloh, post: 14680, member: 32"]Nice piece, love the handle. I found this info. on black coral. [B]Black corals[/B] ([B]Antipatharia[/B]) are a group of deep water, tree-like [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral']corals[/URL] related to[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anemone']sea anemones[/URL]. They are also found in rare dark shallow water areas such as [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand']New Zealand[/URL]'s [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_Sound']Milford Sound[/URL] where they can be viewed from an underwater observatory or via SCUBA diving. They normally occur in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics']tropics[/URL]. There are about 230 known species of Antipatharians in 42 genera.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_coral#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] Though black coral's living tissue is brilliantly colored, it takes its name from the distinctive black or dark brown color of its skeleton. Also unique to black coral are the tiny spines that cover the surface of the skeleton, the origin of the nickname [B]little thorn coral[/B]. In the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language']Hawaiian language[/URL], black coral is called [I]‘ēkaha kū moana[/I] and is the official state gem of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii']Hawaii[/URL]. Black coral is listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ([URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITES']CITES[/URL]).[/QUOTE]
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