The amber specimen is just under 2 centimetres long. Its five petals flop outwards from the rim of the trumpet-like horn of the flower, with five corresponding anthers – the male parts which ...

It is the largest known amber-preserved flower fossil in the world, measuring over 1 inch in diameter. That might not sound like much, but most flower fossils rarely exceed 0.4 inches.

The largest known flower fossil to be preserved in amber, thought to be at least 34 million years old, has been described by scientists as “extraordinary and beautiful”.

At 28 millimeters (1.1 inches) across, it’s the largest known flower to be fossilized in amber – three times the size of similar fossils. Sadowski extracted and examined pollen from the amber.

Carola Radke . The flower was fossilized more than 33 million years ago in the Baltic region as an amber inclusion, formed when sticky resin from a plant evaporated and hardened.

A flower preserved in amber for millions of years has been re-examined by scientists, who have discovered it could be as old as 40 million years.

The new fossil flower Strychnos electri in its original Dominican amber piece of mid-Tertiary age. The whole flower is less than 20 mm long and is the first finding of an asterid flower in amber ...

The five-petal flower was preserved in amber and was unearthed in 1872 from a mine in Kaliningrad, Russia. It is about one inch wide and is three times larger than the second-biggest bloom ...

The Baltic amber flower’s identity hadn’t been revised until Dr. Sadowski’s paper in Scientific Reports was published Thursday. Plants in amber are a rarity.

The flower measures roughly an inch across and is at least three times larger than all other known amber-encased blossoms. Carola Radke / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin In 1872, scientists examined ...