Tree Agate Tumbled Stone Incense Holder Cedar (Cedrela odorata

Cedar (Cedrela odorata

kept by the cooperative in Loreto

Where frankincense lifts a room

creamy and woody underneath

The bowl is carved from a single piece of satin spar

Tree Agate Tumbled Stone Incense Holder Cedar (Cedrela odorataTree agate small tumble polished stones of milky white branched with green, the dendritic chalcedony whose green is mineral, not plant. A different growth on every stone. From India. The "tree" is manganese and iron oxide minerals that crept along fine cracks and branched as they grew, before the chalcedony sealed around them. It is the opaque white cousin of moss agate. Because the dendrites grew freely, no two stones repeat. Pliny wrote of tree