New Member of Fossil Collection

[Cecilia]

My grown daughter and I can still push each other’s buttons, but that kind of familiarity means we know what the other likes and how to make up! She brought me a fossil I’d never seen before:


Can you guess what it is? I couldn’t....it’s bamboo!

[Kentucky point]

That's a new one to me. I've never seen anything like it before.

[painshill]

Very pretty. A lot of this agatized material comes out of places like Java... both as tubular forms and polished slices of those forms like yours. Although it's traded under the colloquial name "fossil bamboo" because of its resemblance to bamboo stems, the consensus is that it probably isn't actually derived from bamboo and is more likely from 'horsetail' plants of the Equisetum genus.

https://www.leojahaan.com/portfolio/fossil-bamboo/

Either way, it's an attractive material.

[Cecilia]

I’m happy with horsetail fossil, polished or otherwise! Horsetail (at least today’s) makes a great herbal tea of the medicinal variety- - - it’s a diuretic !

(Glad you’re correcting me again!)

[Rio Del Norte]

Very cool info for me...appreciate the post.

[utilized flake]

Beauty full!!! Looks like carnelian

[BabaORiley]

Nice piece Cecelia. It sure has a nice polish to it. Really pretty.

[clovisoid]

That is a pretty fossil!

[redrocks]

Cool!!

[Havenhunter]

Very nice, Cecelia. Would have liked to see its raw state before polishing.

[Cecilia]

Me too. (🤫looks like got shellacked!)

[painshill]

You can see more pictures of what this material looks like 'in the raw' at the link below together with a map of the main locations where it is found. Again, with the use of the colloquial term (spelled 'bambu' this time) generally used in the lapidary trade rather than by palaeontologists.

https://www.indoagate.com/bamboo.html

[Cecilia]

Thank you! Sent to Daughter, too; her response was “Oh Wow!” (talks like her mom....)

[Cecilia]

My favorite fossil’s lil’ jealous, wants to take a bite outta its shine...

[Artifascination]

Looks like the creature from that old movie “Tremors” lol! The bamboo piece is pretty cool as well!

[Cecilia]

Yeah, it does! Hadn’t thot ‘bout that! (Loved Kurt Russell....). How ‘bout giant spice-making toothy worms in Dune?

[Josie]

That's a pretty piece Cecilia!