13.2" Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Round - Louisiana

Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Round - Louisiana #143979

This is an exceptional, 13.2" wide round of petrified palm wood (Palmoxylon) from Louisiana. It's a huge round and comes from part of a petrified wood collection we recently purchased that has some rare and outstanding pieces. There is one stabalized crack near the edge of the piece.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

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