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Product Description
Petrified Palm Root Wood Unpolished Stone Slab Rough Rock
This lovely unpolished stone slab of Petrified Palm Root Wood is 3.4 inches long by 2.7 inches wide and 4.5 mm thick.
It weighs .12 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 2 pictures.
This is a unique piece of Fossilized Palm Wood, or Palmoxylon from near Edison, California.
This Petrified Palm Wood is from the Miocene, about 15 million years old.
Ancient Palm Wood is not a true wood, as the trunks were composed of parenchyma, a fibrous support material that surrounded hollow tubes of the plant's vascular structure. These tubes transported water, nutrients, wastes, and other materials through the plant. When Petrified Palm Wood fossilized it kept the original characteristics of the Palm Wood and when it is cut perpendicular to the trunk these this vascular structure can be seen as dots.
