Largest flower found in amber was frozen in time millions of years ago

This stunning flower was trapped in amber between 33 million and 38 million years in the past, preserving it in beautiful element

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

The largest fossil of a flower preserved in amber has been described intimately 150 years after it was first studied – revealing that it was captured because it launched its pollen. Analysis of that pollen had led to its reclassification as a special species.

The fossilised flower was initially found and described in 1872, says Eva-Maria Sadowski on the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. The five-petalled flower, which is about 28 millimetres in diameter, is encased in …