A 38-million-year-old flower found in amber from the Kaliningrad region
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The Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity and the University of Vienna have identified the largest ancient flower found in amber, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The corolla diameter of the flower is 28 millimeters and it is almost three times the previous record. A flower in amber from the Baltic forests of Northern Europe is 38 to 33.9 million years old. The specimen was, as specified in the study, described for the first time and named in 1872. It was mistaken for Stewartia kowalewskii, a flowering evergreen.
But a new analysis of pollen has shown that the flower belongs to a different species – Symplocos kowalewski. Representatives of this genus now grow, as a rule, on the Asian continent.
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