Buy oysters and eat pearls. It is reported that Mr. Guo, a citizen of the island city, recently ate more than 60 pearls in an oyster. 65438+Feb 19 Experts from the Institute of Oceanography, China Academy of Sciences said that although it is not unusual to produce pearls in oysters, it is really rare to produce so many pearls at once.
Mr. Guo, a citizen, said that his father likes sea fishing. 12 at 3 pm, my father came back from the sea. He went to Jiaozhou Bay near Huanwan Road to meet his father. Seeing the fresh wild oysters brought back by other fishing boats, Mr. Guo bought a sack with 50 yuan money, and went home that evening to cook some to taste.
I can't remember when I first ate it. Anyway, that oyster is quite big. Guo said that when he ate oyster meat in his mouth, he suddenly felt a toothache. He quickly spit out the oyster meat in his mouth and found a white thing wrapped in it. When he was washing oyster meat outside, he found it was a small pearl. This discovery made him very excited. After carefully examining the shell and meat of the oyster, he found that it was really a "treasure".
On 19, the reporter saw these pearls. As Mr. Guo said, these pearls are small, but they are numerous. However, the reporter found that these pearls are dark in color, irregular in shape and oblong. Mr. Guo's father said that these oysters should be wild, and personally cultured oysters have never heard of pearl production before.
19, the reporter contacted Zhang Suping, an expert in shellfish research at the Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and she confirmed that this is a real pearl. Zhang Suping said that jellyfish produce pearls mainly because it eats foreign bodies such as sand when eating. The foreign body makes it uncomfortable, so it secretes some nacre to wrap the foreign body layer by layer, and pearls are produced. "But the pearl layer of oysters is thin and irregular, so the pearls produced are different in shape, dark in color and dull."
Zhang Suping said that generally speaking, our common pearl ornaments are produced by mussels in fresh water or Pinctada martensii in seawater, but she said that although it is not uncommon for an oyster to produce pearls, it is really rare for an oyster to produce so many pearls at once. It is understood that Mr. Guo has left these smaller pearls in the Institute of Oceanography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for research.
Event 2: American women eat oysters and 50 pearls.
A woman in Tennessee recently took out 50 pearls from an oyster while eating oysters in a restaurant. It is reported that 53-year-old Eliot ordered oysters at lunch in a restaurant on the 2nd. When she was eating, she found something biting her teeth. Eliot called the waiter, but later she found that what was in her mouth turned out to be pearls, and then she spat out more and more pearls.
In this oyster, Eliot found more small pearls, a total of about 50. The manager of the restaurant was also shocked, saying that although he knew there would be pearls in individual oysters, it was the first time he had seen so many pearls in an oyster.
The manager of the restaurant said, "Because Eliot ordered this oyster, of course these pearls belong to her. Just like winning the lottery, Eliot is also very happy. "
The waiter who brought Eliot's oyster. This restaurant is located in Packert, Tennessee, USA. Its name is Packert Boat House.
Event 3: American women eat oysters and a rare purple pearl.
According to foreign media reports, an American woman bought clams worth $ 15 from a seafood shop, ready to have a full meal, but she ate a rare purple pearl in it, which may be worth $3,000.
Katherine Morelj said that she ate the clam meat in her mouth and spit it out and said, "Look at this." She thought the pearl was beautiful, but she didn't think much about it until her husband began to study it.
Joe Morelj said that according to the information he saw, only 1 of 5,000 clams can produce pearls. And he thinks that the pearl his wife ate can fetch 3000 dollars.
It is reported that George Brock and his wife Leslie (pictured) had lunch at a restaurant in South Florida beach last Friday, and they ordered a steamed clam. Halfway through the meal, Brock bit a hard object. He thought he had eaten a stone. But when he spit out this foreign body, he was surprised to find that it was a purple pearl with bright luster. Appraised by the jeweler, this is a pure pearl, worth about $25,000. Brock's plate of steamed clams only costs 10.
Antoinette Matlins, a gemmologist, said: "Few pearls are so round and rare in color. I think they found something very valuable. " Brock's wife Leslie said, "Interestingly, he almost never orders clams when ordering." Faced with such a good thing, the Brocks decided to sell the pearls.
Taiwanese media said that eating oysters can spit out three pearls? The first reaction many people hear is how it is possible. However, just a few days ago, such a bizarre thing happened to a miss Zhang in Xiamen. Experts speculate that the probability of oysters eating pearls is only one in a million.
Event 4: Eating oysters and accidentally discovering pearls? The probability is only one in a million.
According to Taiwan Province Dongsen News Network and Xiamen Network, Miss Zhang had a barbecue with two relatives and friends and ordered six oysters. However, the boss made an own goal, and the oysters ordered by two tables of guests who arrived later than them have already been served. Miss Zhang almost fell asleep while waiting, but she got a big surprise.
After the oysters were served, Miss Zhang picked one and stuffed it into her mouth. She felt something hard in her mouth when she bit it. She thought it was the shell that vomited immediately, and then she vomited two more. After swallowing the oyster meat, Miss Zhang looked down and found that the three things just spit out were fisheye-shaped, round and white, like pearls.
Miss Zhang often eats oysters, but she has never eaten pearls. She told her family excitedly, but they didn't believe her and thought she was eating stones. Miss Zhang curiously checked the Internet and learned that the probability of pearls appearing in oysters is only one in a million, describing her mood as "more exciting than winning the lottery".
Every few days, Miss Zhang takes these three pearls to the jewelry appraisal center in Xiamen Jewelry City for appraisal. However, the appraiser told her that these three are not pearls, because they have no luster, so they are just stones formed in oysters.
Teacher Zhong, who studies shellfish culture in the Fisheries College of Jida University, said that from the perspective of jewelry, this is really not a pearl, but it can still be called a pearl in biology, because the principle and process of their formation are the same as pearls.
Teacher Zhong said that the shell of bivalve mollusks has three layers, namely, the shell cortex, the prism layer and the pearl layer from the outside to the inside. At present, mussels or Pinctada martensii are mainly used to cultivate pearls, because the pearl layer is thick. When foreign bodies such as small gravel invade the capsule of bivalve mollusks or the connective tissue of visceral sac, scratch epidermal cells or make epidermal cells droop, epidermal cells will form pearl sacs around small particles and secrete nacre, and when they reach a certain thickness, they will form shiny pearls.