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large flowers are rarely found in amber because it would take an incredibly large outpouring of resin to encase the entire blossom. “If you found a singular flower, they are usually quite small ...

And large flowers are even rarer, because it takes a lot of resin to surround a big bloom. “If you found a singular flower, they are usually quite small,” Sadowski says to Scientific American ...

Large flowers are even rarer because a lot of resin is required to trap a big bloom. When the specimen was first discovered, scientists mistakenly classified it as an extinct flowering evergreen ...

This means finding a plant inclusion in amber that is exquisitely preserved and as large ... the resin must block out any oxygen so that microbes cannot start to decay the flower locked inside.

“I really kind of let the flowers speak to me,” she says. Then, it’s time to pour the resin, which can take a week to several weeks, take it out of the mold, sand it and finish it ...