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Published online 3 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020429-15
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Fresh bunch of old flowers
Fossil plants form new branch in flower family tree.
Fossils recently plucked from rocks in China are the first representatives of a hitherto unknown group of flowering plants, say their discoverers Ge Sun of Jilin University and colleagues1.
They also add to growing evidence that flowering plants, which now dominate the land, originally emerged from the water.
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