🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Show and tell Yowah nut

[opalboy]

This is a “nut” from Yowah in Australia, crazy patterns, I see a horse!

 

[Blackfoot58]

Very nice

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ve carved those tagua nuts before. They are kind of like ivory but softer.

 

[Red-Coat]

I’ve carved those tagua nuts before. They are kind of like ivory but softer.

Just spotted this. Very nice, but It's a form of opal, colloquially known as "Yowah nuts" in Australia, not a seed from a tagua palm. Tagua palms also aren't indigenous to Australia.

 

[pepperj]

This is a “nut” from Yowah in Australia, crazy patterns, I see a horse!

I can see what you're referring to as well.
Never heard of this type of nut before, thanks for sharing it.
How did you aquire it?

 

[Red-Coat]

It's not a nut, which is why @opalboy put the word in inverted commas. It's an opal:

Yowah nut - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[opalboy]

Sorry, should have been more specific about it being an opal. I got it from a dealer who lived in Yowah. They can have some incredible patterns. He showed me pics of his mine, it started as a flat lot, and they dug a trench through it and found an opal bearing layer around 16 to 18 feet deep. Every one of the opal are unique.