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  2. Cultured freshwater pearls - Wikipedia

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    Cultured freshwater pearls. A bead crochet necklace made from crochet lace, sterling silver, and freshwater pearls. Cultured freshwater pearls are pearls that are farmed and created using freshwater mussels. These pearls are produced in Japan and the United States on a limited scale, but are now almost exclusively produced in China.

  3. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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    Cultured pearl. Cultured pearls are pearls which are formed within a cultured pearl sac with human intervention in the interior of productive living molluscs in a variety of conditions depending upon the mollusc and the goals. [1] Having the same material as natural pearls, cultured pearls can be cultivated in seawater or freshwater bodies.

  4. Curio rowleyanus - Wikipedia

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    Curio rowleyanus, syn. Senecio rowleyanus, is a flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is a creeping, perennial, succulent vine native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. [1] In its natural environment its stems trail on the ground, rooting where they touch and form dense mats. It often avoids direct sunlight by growing in the ...

  5. Pearl - Wikipedia

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    Georgian seed pearl gold ring. A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) [3] in minute ...

  6. Baroque pearl - Wikipedia

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    Baroque pearls are pearls with an irregular, non-spherical shape. [1][2] Shapes can range from minor aberrations to distinctly ovoid, curved, pinched, or lumpy shapes. Most cultured freshwater pearls are baroque because freshwater pearls are mantle-tissue nucleated instead of bead nucleated. Cultured saltwater pearls can also be baroque, but ...

  7. Tahitian pearl - Wikipedia

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    Tahitian pearl. Tahitian pearls in bulk. The Tahitian pearl (or black pearl) is an organic gem formed from the black lip oyster (Pinctada margaritifera). [1] These pearls derive their name from the fact that they are primarily cultivated around the islands of French Polynesia, around Tahiti. [2]