Acropora. Expert to keep, typical PAR 200–400, moderate to high flow.
Also sold as ORA Pearlberry, Pearl Berry.
Named by ORA. The name means their coral, and lineage back to them is what it is worth.
Collector tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
A delicately branched Acropora from ORA, with fine, slender branches carrying a pearlescent sheen over a pale green body. ORA describes greenish corallites and lavender tips; one grower with its own ORA colony describes mint green branches frosting to white at the tips, with lavender-blue corallites. It encrusts before it branches and usually grows into a compact ball, tabling out under strong flow.
The pearl is the name and the tell: a sheen over pale green on thin, fragile branches. Where the lavender sits is where accounts part, so judge the sheen on slender branches rather than exactly where the purple shows. Pieces have been sold as ORA Pearlberry that grew out forest green into a table, and one forum thread ran past 220 posts over whether a colony was the real one, so a line back to ORA counts for more than a photograph. The branches are brittle and frags are slow to settle.
High light and strong random flow, up in the rockwork. Pearlberry is expert to keep at a typical PAR of 200–400 in moderate to high flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per frag and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One frag is a single cut on a plug, whatever its exact size. Colonies, mini colonies and mother stock are excluded rather than averaged in. Nothing on this page is for sale.