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Desert Rose Gypsum, Mexico
SKU · ne069
$13.64
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Stacked lobes give this desert rose the silhouette of a small gourd, and every square millimetre of its surface is built from curved blades overlapping in tight whorls. 3.8 × 2.3 × 2.3 cm, 20 g.
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Stacked lobes give this desert rose the silhouette of a small gourd, and every square millimetre of its surface is built from curved blades overlapping in tight whorls. The colour is oatmeal to pale sand, darker where grains of the desert floor were swallowed during growth, while the blade edges stay a cleaner cream and catch the light along fine ridges.
The rosette habit follows directly from where gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) crystallises: in damp sand, where each growing blade has to push through and around the grains and ends up sandy through and through rather than clear. That trapped sand is why a desert rose looks matte where a clean gypsum crystal would look glassy. Gypsum is Mohs 2 — a fingernail marks it — and it is faintly soluble in water, so this is a specimen to dust, never to wash or soak.
It stands 3.8 × 2.3 × 2.3 cm and weighs 20 g, putty-set on a clear acrylic block. Photographed exactly as it will arrive, base and all.
About Gypsum
Gypsum is a sulfate mineral prized by collectors for its exceptional color range, with several world-class Chinese localities.
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Is this Gypsum natural?
Yes — specimens like this form naturally. As is standard in the trade, some pieces are gently cleaned or trimmed; we photograph the actual specimen and describe its origin and condition conservatively.
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