Off White Side Drilled Baroque Freshwater Pearls have an excellent high luster, excellent nacre quality, well matched on strand, have a petite size, Shape is irregular with a flat appearance, and the color is an off white hue. Baroque freshwater pearls have been cultured using a host mollusk in a lake environment. The process takes at least 3-5 years to produce a pearl of normal size and longer for an even larger pearl. Color is a factor of the mollusk mantle color, the growth environment, and perhaps a dyeing process after cultivation.