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- Title
Pinctada maxima cultured pearls grown beadless in the mantle.
- Authors
Hänni, Henry A.
- Abstract
The article presents a description of the Pinctada maxima culture pearls at the Swiss Gemological Institute Schweizerische (SSEF) in Switzerland. One side of the pearls were white. It is noted that the pearls are similar to some beadless freshwater cultured pearls from China. When culturing pearls, a piece of mantle tissues attached to the gonad or the mantle will help trigger growth. It is asserted that the oysters used to host the cultured pearls were used to grow two types of pearl, one of them is the beaded gonad-grown cultured pearls.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; CULTURED pearls; PINCTADA; PEARL oysters; PEARLS; OYSTERS
- Publication
Gems & Gemology, 2008, Vol 44, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0016-626X
- Publication type
Article