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Description
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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 material is of the Araucaria species of tree, found in the Kennedy Ranges of Western Australia. The white areas are actually part of a network of holes where the once-living wood was bored by teredo mollusks, aka shipworms. Over millennia, those tunnels were filled with radiolarite, an odd form of common opal. Great contrast here! And surprisingly, much of the dark root beer brown area is highly translucent, which I attempted to illustrate in the backlit photo. The cab has a well rounded dome of 6.5mm, a sleek designer teardrop shape, and a great glassy polish both front and back.
Size: 48x20mm
Weight: approximately 44 carats
Price: SOLD See current gemstones for sale
 Peanut wood
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