I’ve been trying to organize my inventory and I’ve stumbled into a small stash of unexpected old stock treasures including this incredibly fascinating and visually appealing slab! I had a difficult time capturing the real contrast in this piece with a photograph, but it is one of the most intriguingly colorful and visually captivating petrified wood slabs I’ve seen! This gorgeous, 100% naturally colored gem fossil features some bright green shades in the midst of a high contrast breccia pattern that defies words. It’s one of the nicest I’ve seen from Madagascar in years – or any other petrified forest for that matter! This is a medium sized slab at and it is a nearly perfect specimen from the most solid part of this very colorful, breccia patterned log! This one even has a gorgeous crystal geode cavern on one side! In person however, the wood grain structure, color, and crystal inclusions are truly breath taking. This log was one that I directly imported on my trip to Madagascar a couple of years ago and I’ve just finished cutting and polishing it. They are turning out even better than I’d hoped! These are true museum pieces and you just can’t beat the price for a well polished, flawless and ancient piece of natural art this size! The rich color and mirror perfect mirror like finish in this exceptionally preserved specimen are going to have to be seen to be believed, as is that incredible breccia! One of the largest and most productive petrified forests on the planet is on the huge island of Madagascar off the southern African coast. While many have seen the bland and lifeless specimens that are most typically found in this huge deposit, few have had the opportunity to see the top grade, colorful gem fossils that are occasionally unearthed there. Fewer still get to see them properly prepared with a mirror finish to reveal all of the rich fossil wood grain and color! Even the rind on this log is amazing, offering up a perfectly contrasting sandy texture that still looks like a log today. This year we located a new source of logs that have produced some truly museum grade specimens and this stunning monster is definitely one of them! The green color alone makes it a collector piece – but add in all the other features in this nearly flawless specimen and you can see why I was so excited to have found the log! They truly do not get much better than this folks, no matter what forest you’re looking at! It’s just amazing how beautiful petrified wood can be and this fine specimen found halfway around the world shows to what lengths people will go to bring these treasures to market! If you don’t own a top grade piece from this increasingly important deposit yet in your own collection, this is your chance. This is a complete round cut from the center of a nice sized log. It shows the distinct (and uncommon to see so well in logs from this location) honeycomb grain structure of modern conifers (no resin canals visible) which makes it related to modern fir and sequoia (it’s probably Araucaria). This stone has been professionally polished on our own custom built laps that produce a flat face and a mirror perfect shine. It is a full slab cut from the center of the log. The polish really is liquid perfect – a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on! It’s also a nice to display size with enough presence to be a center piece on a wall – it measures about 9 3/8 ” x 6 3/8″ across the mirror polished face and is cut about 1/2 thick. Weight is about 1.96 lbs. The item “SiS EXOTIC BRECCIA 8+ Madagascar Petrified Wood STUNNING FOSSIL Araucaria” is in sale since Wednesday, May 1, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Fossils\Vegetation\Petrified Wood”. The seller is “rockshop” and is located in Beaverton, Oregon. This item can be shipped worldwide.