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Anyone who has seen “Jurassic Park” knows that all manner of organisms can end up trapped in amber — preserved in hardened tree resin, waiting for scientists to unlock their secrets millions of years later. The latest find is a previously undiscovered species of flower that could be as much as 45 million years old.

The flower, dubbed Strychnos electri by Rutgers botanist Lena Struwe, is described in a study published Monday in Nature Plants.

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Because amber — which is incredibly useful for preserving bugs and plants alike — is difficult to date, it’s possible that the flower is as little as 15 million years old.

“These flowers looked like they had just fallen from a tree,” Oregon State University entomologist George Poinar said in a statement. Poinar, who studies insects trapped in amber and brought the fossil back from an amber mine in the Dominican Republic in 1986, is a co-author on the study. “I thought they might be Strychnos, and I sent them to Lena because I knew she was an expert in that genus,” he said.