An curved arrow pointing right. South Sea pearls are the largest cultured-pearl variety, sometimes reaching over 20 millimeters in diameter. The Pinctada maxima oyster can take up to five years to ...

You don’t want one to overwhelm the other. How do you determine a good pearl? The rarest pearl-bearing oyster is the pinctada maxima, and there are two strands: the white lip and the golden. The ...

saltwater oyster Pinctada Maxima. (Some are also grown in Japanese and Australian pearl farms.) “The value of the golden South Sea Pearl depends primarily on its color, with the deepest golden ...