8.55" Polished Petrified Wood (Mansonia?) Round - Myanmar

Polished Petrified Wood (Mansonia?) Round - Myanmar #162897

This is a detailed 8.55" wide polished round of petrified hardwood from Myanmar. While tropical hardwoods are notoriously difficult to identify down to a genus or species level, our polisher thinks it's related to Mansonia. The round has been polished to a mirror-like finish on one side with no dull spots.

An acrylic display stand will accompany your purchase.

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

SPECIES

Mansonia?

LOCATION

Central Myanmar (Burma)

SIZE

8.55 x 6.4", .35" thick

8.55" Polished Petrified Wood (Mansonia?) Round - Myanmar

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