4.2" Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Slab - Texas

Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Slab - Texas #236592

This is a 4.2" wide slab of petrified palmwood (Palmoxylon) which has been polished to a glossy finish on one side. Native Americans historically used this petrified palmwood to make projectile points and other tools such as knives, awls and scrapers.

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