The flower is 100 million years old as freshly picked in amber

Seven flowers are perfectly preserved in 100 million years of amber in Myanmar, being passed by the tyrannical dinosaur falling from the tree.

The researchers found transparent amber blocks in Myanmar, which contained seven tiny flowers with a width of 3.4 to 5mm, Phys.org reported on Aug. 15. The intact flowers belong to a little winged flower in the rain forest, which existed 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.

According to the research team, this is the largest collection of flowers from this time ever analyzed. They said the newly-picked flowers, though hundreds of millions of years have passed since fossils formed.

The flower is preserved intact in the amber mass for 100 million years.(Photo: University of Oregon).

"Amber stores the parts of the flower so well that they look like they've just picked from the garden. The dinosaurs can brush the branches, causing the flowers to fall and stick to the plastic of the bark of the canopy. then fossilized and became amber, "said George Poinar Jr, emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, USA.

Scattered plants have a family of kauri pine growing today in New Zealand and Australia. Kauri pine trees produce a special resin that can survive in all weather conditions.

All 7 flowers in the amber blossoms have radios radiating in all directions. Based on this feature, they are named Tropidogyne pentaptera (T. pentaptera) , using the Greek word meaning number 5 (penta) and wing (pteron). The researchers compared the flowers to another species called Tropidogyne pikei (T. pikei), which was recently discovered in amber and found some notable features.

"The new flower has a radiant lattice, a nectar plate and an internal groove like T. pikei. But the difference lies in the two ovals, along with a long, slender shape and the grooves in The rimless ovary is as dark as T. pikei, " Professor Poinar Jr said.

T. pentaptera and T. pikei are all classified in the family Cunoniaceae, which still exists today.

The 100-million-year-old flowers are very similar to the Australian tree name coach wood tree . The tree grows over 36 meters tall and lives for centuries, but distributes over 6,400km from Myanmar.