Freshwater Pearls

Freshwater pearls grow in mussels from freshwater lakes and rivers mainly in China and Japan.  The tissue nucleation used to grow cultured freshwater pearls most closely replicates a natural pearl more than saltwater pearls do.  An individual freshwater mussel can be nucleated up to 50 times at once, with a development period of 2 to 5 years yielding approximately 35 pearls ranging from 4 to 11mm. Freshwater pearls come in a diverse palette of colors and are typically found in white, cream, pink, peach, tangerine, violet and black.  Freshwater pearls are the first pearl type to be cultured by human intervention, and modern advances in China have made the freshwater pearl almost indistinguishable from the historically sought after saltwater Akoya pearl.

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