
MY FAVORITE 11" BURMESE Petrified Palm Wood Slab - Fossil Palmoxylon from Myanmar!
This virtually perfect slab is cut from the center of one of the best preserved of the petrified palm logs we imported recently from Myanmar. In the past we've offered palm specimens from Texas, Louisiana, Indonesia and Wyoming, but this is the best batch of petrified palm logs we've ever had the pleasure of cutting! We have several choice petrified tropical hardwoods available from this forest, but this slab is taken from the first of the palm logs we've had the absolute pleasure of cutting and WOW! It is very nicely preserved! The vascular bundles under magnification are fascinating and not quite like other palms I've seen from Asia, though the species is beyond my qualifications to even attempt to name if it has, in fact, been identified at all! The color contrast in the gemstone that preserved this fossil really makes the structure of the trunk stand out in incredible detail - one of my favorite palm slabs I have ever done. And of course you know that we've polished this ama