Too pretty!
Now the large blister pearls in those pins are starting to make sense - the shape does look like the flattened natural blisters from the 'normal' rainbow abalone.
There are so many species... maybe more white ones too. Didn't do an exhaustive search.
That report linked to in the previous post sort of hist at experiments with growing full abalone pearls. Wonder if the folks are on to something or I am just over-interpreting.
