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Peanut wood cab ~
Offered here is a cabochon of rare petrified peanut wood, also known as teredo wood. This ancient fossil tree material is of the Araucaria species, found in the Kennedy Ranges of Western Australia. It's become very scarce these days, because there's simply little left to find. This cab was cut from a small horde I've had tucked away for awhile. The rounded ivory white and burnt yellow spots are actually part of a network of holes bored into the wood of the once-living tree by teredo mollusks, aka shipworms. Over millennia, those burrowed holes were filled with radiolarite, an odd form of common opal. This example retained some of the tree's original woodgrain pattern. Peanut wood certainly cuts unusual, high contrast cabs, and this one's sure to be an interesting attraction in your jewelry or your pet wood collection! The stone has a well rounded dome of 7mm, and a slick glassy polish both front and back.
Size: 35x23 mm
Weight: approximately 35 carats
Price: SOLD See current gemstones for sale
 Peanut wood
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