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More sizes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42311345@N04/11696825063/

I think the purple hue is sort of an illusion because of the golden color. When doing a hue adjustment in Photoshop, the "buds" stay the same color and so must actually be grey. The image was created with Mandelbulber using the following settings:

Fractal Type: Hybrid
Constant Factor: 0.8
Hybrid of:
 - Mandelbulb ( iter: 4, pow: 4 )
 - Xenodreambuie ( iter: 1, pow: 8 )
 - Menger Sponge ( iter: 3, pow: 4 )
Cyclic Loop: enabled