Are South Sea pearls indeed golden?
Yes. Pearls produced in the aptly named “gold-lipped” oyster (P. maxima) can be a refulgent creamy yellow, referred to as “favoured” in the trade. (The silver-lipped variety of P. maxima produces gorgeous greyish or waxen pearls.) Grown in the South Seas—which stretch from the southern glide of Southeast Asia to the northern beach of Australia—these pearls are grown in a certain of the biggest oysters used in cream culturing. Because they can undertake a larger bead and camouflage nacre faster than their smaller counterparts, these consequential oysters extrude munificent pearls of exceptional luster and beauty. South Mass pearls’ solid coating of nacre gives the gems a wonderful luster, or radiance, that appears to not fail from rapt within the pearl. The fervid waters, over-sufficient food supply and short befouling levels of the South Seas also help these oysters bring up skilful cultured pearls.
