Plants

[Kayanddogs]

Hi guys,

here is a stone that i picked up from a landscaping store. This was a part of a flag stone tile they sold for outdoor garden construction.  So i have no idea where it was from.  But the lacy image looked like a row of plants.  Most likely from southwest of United States.

            Kay

[Kayanddogs]

Better picture

[supertramp]

no, dendritic manganese

https://www.google.it/search?q=dendritic+manganese&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjon9Pnz_jSAhWqF5oKHdhoA54Q_AUIBigB&biw=1280&bih=894

[Coco]

Hi,

 

OK with Supertramp !

 

Coco

[Fossildude19]

+1 for Dendrites.

They are often mistaken for plant fossils. 

[EMP]

4 hours ago, Kayanddog said:

Hi guys,

here is a stone that i picked up from a landscaping store. This was a part of a flag stone tile they sold for outdoor garden construction.  So i have no idea where it was from.  But the lacy image looked like a row of plants.  Most likely from southwest of United States.

            Kay

 

Hi Kay,

 

Unfortunately these are not plant fossils. To me these look like a dendritic form of Manganese Oxide, which sometimes forms on weathered iron or manganese rich rocks. The way to tell dendrites apart from plants is that a fern fossil will look like a fern, where as dendrites tend to be a lot narrower, clumped together, and almost always perfectly straight. Also, most plant fossils don't exhibit as much branching as dendrites do. 

[ynot]

Hey hi Kay,

I agree with dendrites.

I think You have a very nice example of them!

[Kayanddogs]

Thank you guys.  This is very pretty pattern anyway. Dentrites, i will look it up and learn more about it.

            Kay 

[abyssunder]