Fossilised flower is beautiful, deadly and new to science

It is beautiful, deadly and new to science. And if that is not enough, it has been fossilised in amber for perhaps 30 million years… "The specimens are beautiful, perfectly preserved fossil flowers, which at one point in time were borne by plants that lived in a steamy tropical forest with both large and small trees, climbing vines, grasses and other vegetation," said George Poinar, of Oregon State University, who with Lena Struwe of Rutgers University, reports in Nature Plants on evolution’s trophy from a distant past. The asterid family embraces an estimated 80,000 species, and one genus within the family is inherently toxic.