SiS: Petrified Wood Round - DOUBLE HEARTED African WOODWORTHIA!

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Seller: rockshop ✉️ (13,060) 100%, Location: Beaverton, Oregon, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 382037185542 SiS: Petrified Wood Round - DOUBLE HEARTED African WOODWORTHIA!.
This is one of the few double hearted specimens I've encountered in the Zimbabwe Woodworthia specimens I've had the pleasure of cutting and this one is by far the largest!  The color combo is uncommonly rich and dark with some of the best defined rays from spike knots arranged in the most symmetric and visually captivating pattern you'll ever see in petrified wood.  This one is much, MUCH better agatized than most logs from this region and we've produced a mirror perfect polish on this piece the likes of which you'll rarely see from this forest.  It's thick enough to show some of the characteristic spine scars on the rind.  One of my all time favorites in a wonderful collector size specimen with amazing agate density!

This round is from a larger log that still has the stellar rays emanating through the entire round from the spike knots this wood is identified from. In the last couple of years I've started seeing some really fascinating petrified wood coming into the US at the big import shows from Zimbabwe, Africa! The wood is typically green, brown and black and exceptionally well preserved on the exterior. The interior reminds me of a lot of the Utah wood in detail (i.e. it's hit and miss) but the best pieces show beautiful spike knots leading up to the spine bases that coat the exterior logs. You'd recognize these specimens anywhere as the logs are consistently the same colors inside and out, and the exterior is coated with an unmistakable pattern of spine scars. The wood grain itself varies in quality, but the best of these pieces show spike knots in cross section (they look like rays coming from the center of the log) and a good cut will show several of them.

This wood is quite unique and really a much more interesting fossil than most of the woodworthia we get here in the US. The green color is something you have to see in person to understand - it's not really comparable to any other petrified wood and it's difficult to get a representative photograph that really does the color justice. The wood has a reasonably high silica content so we're able to coax a nice polish out of the specimen.

This is one of the few complete rounds I was able to locate that really took a nice polish. If the timeless mystery of this piece isn't enough for you, then I'm certain the simple, natural, gemmy beauty of it will be. The colors are dark and subtle, and the wood grain is unique to this exotic species.

This round is cut from the center of a very solid log. It's really a nice piece, but what else would you expect from a business named "Sticks-in-Stones"?! We've applied all of our considerable lapidary skills to bring out a mirror finish and produce a specimen worthy of display in your own collection. You can also make out some of the spine scars on the edge of the slice.

This piece measures about 5 1/4" across the polished face and is cut 0.32" thick.  Weighs 0.54 lbs.

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