A small sculpture whose leaves are chips of warm yellow quartz.Dozens of tumbled citrine fragments are wired into a branching canopy on a natural mineral base. Citrine is quartz colored gold by trace iron, most often amethyst slowly heated to 400–500°C to transform its violet into amber—a stable, widely practiced process that has produced the world's commercial citrine supply for well over a century. Each chip on this tree carries a slightly different tone depending on where in the original crystal it fell.The gem-tree form is a long-standing decorative tradition in lapidary craft. Citrine is the November birthstone and has been worn as ornament since ancient times across Greece, Egypt, and Scotland. In the chakra tradition it is associated with the solar plexus center.A warm accent piece for a windowsill or workspace, where natural light can move through the canopy.
