This is the largest post shaped Woodworthia log I’ve ever finished! You can collect the rest of your life and not see another Woodworthia specimen like this! This stout log has one of the most unique colorations of any I’ve ever seen and include some dark emerald green shades that are easy to appreciate in good light. It also has some of the largest and best defined spine/bud scars on the exterior of any that I’ve seen. Part of the log has weathered away in what appears to be the ground contact area and/or desiccation before petrification, but the rest of the exterior is perfect and intact, including the perfectly shaped, full cross section that we’ve cut and polished to a mirror finish. There’s even some fossil bark still clinging to the trunk! You’re simply not going to see a better fossil specimen or one better prepared than this one. The growth structure really stands out in the mirror polished face of this high contrast specimen. It’s almost unfathomable how much time has passed since this stone was a tree, but it’s story is there for you to hold in your hands now, millions of years later! It’s a truly fascinating 100% natural work of ancient art! The finely detailed annual rings are pierced by the bold rays to form one of the prettiest and most striking fossil formations you’ll ever see in petrified wood. This one polished nicely and represents some of the gemmiest wood available from this forest. This isn’t one of those dull, lifeless import finished pieces either. This log has been ground flat on our laps and polished to a mirror perfect shine to reveal all of the gemmy beauty hidden inside this amazing fossil. One of my all time favorites in a wonderful museum sized specimen! This log 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. 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 a full, reasonably complete section from a premium grade 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. This log is almost 11″ long and measures about 6 1/8″ across the mirror polished face. Weight is 16.42 lbs. The item “SiS 16+ lb. MONSTER Petrified Wood Woodworthia Log MY BIGGEST Zimbabwe Post” is in sale since Monday, April 13, 2020. 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.