New Species of Flower Found Trapped in Amber for 15 Million Years

New Species of Flower Found Trapped in Amber for 15 Million Years http://bit.ly/1XwZpCu 

A Rutgers scientist has identified a flower trapped in ancient amber for 15 million years as belonging to a species completely new to science.
Lena Struwe, professor of botany in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, has discovered that two flowers found encased amber for at least 15 million years belong to none of the known 200 species of the genus Strychnos. Therefore, they represent a newly discovered species,Strychnos electri. Struwe coined the species name in honor of its amber origin, since elektron is the Greek word for amber.

Strychnos electri, encased in amber, was found by George Poinar during a trip to a Dominican amber mine in 1986, named by Lena Struwe in 2015.


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