Pearls - mother-of-pearl, pure and beautiful at all times were highly valued by people. In order for a mollusk to create a natural pearl, it must face an existential threat - this is a struggle with a foreign body that has entered a living organism. Thus, the beauty of natural pearls is born from the struggle between life and death.
Pearl - winner's award
Pearls were known as "tears of the gods" until Japanese entrepreneur Mikimoto did not invent or perfect the cultivation of pearls around 1900. Today, cultured pearls are an industrial product.
In this article, I invite you to get acquainted with ten natural, very rare pearls and marvel at the fantasies of nature again!
Pearl Conch
Beautiful pastel color pearl conch is a limestone formation produced by the queen conch mollusc, which is a large edible sea snail. Most often pink in color and usually oval in shape, the finest specimens exhibit an undulating "flame" structure on their surface and have a creamy, porcelain appearance and a unique shimmering sheen.
Pearl Abalone
The most colorful of all pearl clams, the abalone is found in rocky coastal waters around the world. Although these snails are quite numerous, they rarely produce pearls.
Pearl of Tridacna
The giant tridacna, or giant cocked hat, is a large species of marine bivalve mollusk that lives in the reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
A beautiful flame-effect pearl made from aragonite prisms, with a fine silky sheen often only visible in reflected light. Most pearls contain an inner core or inner layers composed of radially arranged calcite prisms.
Pearl Kodakia tiger (Codakia tigerina)
Melo-melo pearls
Melo pearl comes from the melo-melo snail, a marine gastropod mollusk from the Volutidae family. This large creature lives in the South China Sea, as well as in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Unlike pearls made from oysters or mussels, melo pearls are not nacreous. It is formed from a combination of calcite and aragonite, which gives it a porcelain texture.
Pteria Stern
Pteria sterna, the Pacific winged oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oyster. This oyster can be found in shallow waters along the tropical and subtropical Pacific coast of America, and its range includes Baja California, Mexico, and northern Peru.
Scallop Pearl "Lion's Paw"
These unusually beautiful Lion's Paw scallop pearls, which are natural calcareous concretions of mollusks, live in the coastal waters of Central and North America.
Pearl Quahog
Pearl Clam Quahog is one of the rarest and most expensive natural pearls in the world.
Pearl Cassis
The Cassis pearl is an extremely rare natural non-mother-of-pearl pearl produced by the Cassis Cornuta mollusc and found in the Indo-Pacific region. Cassis pearls are found in the colors of white, beige brown and orange, the latter being the most valuable and sought after pearls. They showcase the beautiful structure of the flame that flickers and dances beneath its surface. Because of their rarity, Cassis pearls are difficult to come by as only a small number of these pearls are found each year.
Natural pearl of the East
