Earrings with corals 80’s

Yellow gold earrings with corals 80’s . Diameter corals 16,5 and 20,5 .

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The red coral is the only species of the genus Corallium living in the Mediterranean, from Greece and Tunisia to the Straits of Gibraltar, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Balearic Islands included, but is also widespread in the eastern Atlantic in Portugal, the Canary Islands, Morocco and Cape Verde Islands, usually up to 200 metres deep in poorly lit places with little vegetation.

Corallium rubrum is considered endemic to the Mediterranean, although some populations have been reported in Portugal and Cape Verde.

It needs special living conditions: constant water salinity (which must be between 28% and 40‰, depending on the location and type of coral), reduced water movement and dimmed lighting. The rate of sediment suspended in the water, if too high, limits its survival.

It therefore lives preferably in shady and sheltered places (semi-shady caves, overhangs, cracks in the rocks), from a depth of 20/30 metres up to 200 metres.

Corallium rubrum is a very slow-growing species. Studies on growth rates have shown that colonies grow on average between 0.25 and 0.66 mm in basal diameter over a year.

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