Pages tagged Tropical
Varieties
White Scar Oyster
Southern Thailand's farmed oyster, grown in Bandon Bay on rocks and cemented poles for two to three years.
Varieties
Saccostrea cucullata
A rock oyster of Indo-Pacific shores, from Kenya's mangroves to India and Australia, used as much to monitor pollution as to eat.
Varieties
Cortez Oyster
Mexico's native Pacific-coast oyster, the ostión de placer, collected and farmed in Nayarit's estuaries as the introduced Pacific oyster struggles.
Varieties
Mangrove Oyster
A small oyster that hangs from red mangrove roots between the tides, fished and farmed from Cuba to Brazil.