The ancestors of flowers are bisexual plants

One study showed that the ancestors of flowers were bisexual plants.

According to TheVerge, we can now know how ancestors of flowers today are thanks to scientists who have used computer models to recreate plants that lived 140 million years ago.

Flowers from 140 million years ago are not much different from today.

In the past, we did not understand much about the origin of most of today's flowering plants, called angiosperms (about 90% of all plants). This is partly because flowers are not well preserved, so fossils are rare.

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists used a database of flower traits and computer models about how flowers evolved to find their ancestral shapes. .

The model shows that the ancestors of flowers are bisexual plants.

As a result, the computer created a model similar to white lilies, with three layers of petals, called "whorls" . The model shows that the ancestors of flowers are bisexual plants , meaning that they carry both male and female parts in the pistil. These findings are a starting point for many studies of flower evolution. It can help us fill the void of knowledge and find out how the following generations of this plant adapt to different environments and become magnolias (magnolia genus), chrysanthemum and all other flowers.

The models used in this study are speculative, so we still cannot know all the details about the ancestors of these flowers. But at least we find that flowers 140 million years ago are not much different from today.