“Pineapple” Quartz Cluster
- Species
- Quartz
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 7
- Chemistry
- SiO₂
- Dimensions
- 41 × 22 × 48 cm (16.1 × 8.7 × 18.9 in)
- Weight
- 16.5 kg (36.4 lb)
- Grade
- Museum Grade
- Treatment
- 100% Natural · Untreated
The lower slopes are dense sprays of fine, near-pure-white crystal needles. Ascending, the sprays give way to stouter prisms, and the palette shifts — cream, then butter-yellow, then honey-gold at the crown, the iron staining richest at the top. Needle-spray texture and glassy prism faces alternate the whole way up, so the tower reads differently at every level.
This is not one crystal — it is a city of them. Dozens of radiating quartz blossoms stack and climb into a forty-eight-centimeter tower, frost-white at the base and warming upward through cream into honey where natural iron staining soaked the upper stories. The trade name is affectionate and accurate: it rises like a great crystalline pineapple.
Why collectors want this
Large quartz is common; large quartz with this much event is not. The vertical white-to-honey gradient gives the tower a narrative direction, and the sheer count of individual blossoms rewards unlimited close viewing. At sixteen and a half kilos and nearly half a meter tall, it anchors a room.
Living with it
Light it from two heights: one lamp low to frost the white base, one higher to make the honey crown glow. Position it once and leave it — always move with two people, lifting from the base.
Packed by value-graded protection and shipped tracked & insured worldwide (DHL / FedEx / UPS), dispatched within 3–7 business days. This large statement piece ships by insured sea freight — allow about 4–8 weeks.
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