Garnet, gemstone description Garnet Garnet is a family of minerals having similar physical and crystalline properties and is actually a large group. Garnet displays the greatest variety of color of any mineral, occurring in every color except blue. Most of the names for garnets relate to a particular color. Rhodolite is a purplish red pyrope-almandite garnet.
Hessonite is the variety name for a fine orange, cinnamon brown, or pinkish variety of grossularite.
Tsavorite is the trade name for fine dark green grossularite. Uvarovite is also a dark green. Melanite is a black titanium bearing variety of andradite and demantoid is a rich green variety. Fine-quality pyrope garnets from Czechoslovakia are purplish red, purplish red, orangy red, crimson, or dark red and are often called Bohemian garnets. Spessartite garnet can be red, reddish orange, orange, yellow-brown, reddish brown, or blackish brown.