The Most Valuable Botanical Jewel
...Certainly the rarest and most valuable botanical jewel is the legendary "coconut pearl" that occasionally forms inside a coconut (Cocos nucifera)...
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...An alleged coconut pearl in Singapore within the endocarp of a coconut.
Suggested price was $60,000 in December of 2003...
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...Opinions about the origin of, and the chemical composition of coconut pearls are divided. Some even say, that all of the known occurrences of coconut pearls are fakes...
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...There is simply no adequate botanical explanation for the formation of a true, aragonite pearl inside of a coconut. Coconuts do not have calcium-forming tissues comparable with the mantle of mollusks...
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Erm, yeah..right. Pearls indeed. *snort*
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