Does Coral Count as a Plant?

Though coral may look like a colorful plant growing from roots in the seafloor, it is actually an animal. Corals are known as colonial organisms, because many individual creatures live and grow while connected to each other.

What is a coral classified as?

Classification: Though a coral polyp looks like a plant, it's really an animal, or rather, a colony of animals, and is classified into the Phylum Cnidaria (also called Phylum Coelenterata).

Is coral a plant or animal Wikipedia?

There can be thousands of polyps on a single coral branch. Corals are animals and not plants. They can appear like plants because they are sessile and take root on the ocean floor. But unlike plants, corals do not make their own food.