Tuesday, October 16, 2018

oldest known flower

A hundred-million-year-old flower trapped in amber  that looks like it was blooming last week.  Micropetasos burmensis, is made of bunches of very tiny flowers no more than 0.03 inch (a millimeter) wide.

                     


http://rt.com/news/oldest-flower-silene-reanimate-837/

jpr: One wonders who was there to enjoy these plants.

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