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

This beautiful flower is exquisitely preserved, encased in amber 33-38 million years ago.

To Jason Arunn Murugesu

The largest fossil of a flower preserved in amber has been detailed 150 years after it was first studied, revealing it was captured when it released pollen. Analysis of its pollen has reclassified it as a separate species.

The first discovery and description of a fossilized flower was in 1872, says Eva-Maria Sadowski of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. A five-petaled flower with a diameter of about 28 mm…