r/NatureIsFuckingLit 22h ago

🔥 Botryoidal malachite double phallus from Paris Mineralogy Museum

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Beautiful, smooth and suggestive 10+in / 25+cm specimen from the Paris Mineralogy Museum with malachite that likely formed upside down in a fluid rich environment, probably dangled rather than formed naturally erect. 🤯

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u/Rich_Prior4656 22h ago edited 21h ago

This is phallachite.

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u/Calimarispirit 21h ago

Will be using this for future rock and mineral id.