6.7" Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Round - Myanmar

Polished Petrified Palmwood (Palmoxylon) Round - Myanmar #308118

This is a beautiful, 6.7" wide, polished round of Burmese petrified palmwood (Palmoxylon). It displays a beautiful mixture of brown and orange hues. The vascular bundles under magnification are fascinating and not quite like other palms seen from Asia.

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