1.2" Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Sphere - Texas

Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Sphere - Texas #309205

This is a beautiful, 1.2" wide sphere made from petrified palm wood (Palmoxylon) which has been beautifully polished to a glossy finish. Native Americans historically used this petrified palmwood to make projectile points and other tools such as knives, awls, and scrapers.

Petrified palmwood includes a group of fossil woods that contain rod-like structures within the regular grain of the silicified or agatized wood. Depending upon the angle at which they are cut, these structures show up as spots, tapering rods, or continuous lines. The rod-like structures are sclerenchyma bundles that comprise part of the woody tissues that gave the wood its vertical strength.

The Louisiana State Fossil - Petrified Palmwood