4.05" Polished Petrified Cycad Slab - England

Cycads are woody, stout, slow growing plants of the order cycadales. They are superficially similar to palms, having broad, feather-like leaves and rough scale-like exteriors. However, they are only distantly related. Cycads are a very old group of terrestrial plants, having existed since at least the early Permian, and persisted in varying states of success into the modern day. Cycads are gymnosperms, meaning that any individual plant is either a male or female. Cycads have scaly exteriors on their thick stems, which coupled with their pinnate foliage, make excellent fossils.