Show A ineer gem among the many strange found in the philippines are bamboo opala vegetable beems which are kan sio nally found in the stem of the occasionally bam not one piece of bamboo in a thousand contains one of these gem s or there as elsewhere the bamboo la usually empty accident however branea to light a small flint ake substance in the stem of the baro boo which has just the appearance real opal these of a growths are called the natives to bacur and by some of them reproduce the characteristics of the opal so perfectly that even experts well bo puzzled to detect them from may the real seni |