What is the Indian heliotrope stone?
Heliotrope from Tankara, Gujarat, India. Heliotrope is a green variety of chalcedony with red spots of hematite. It is these red spots that give heliotrope its more common name – bloodstone. The Heliotrope is a dark green stone from the group of jaspers and chalcedones, distinguished by a fine red dot on a clear surface or, depending on the species, a pink, red and yellow dot. In antiquity it was called the most beautiful of the jaspers and was called The Sunstone.