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Numerous traces of plants have been found in Baltic amber (succinite). These are usually small fragments of plant tissue and plant organs, which - fresh or already decomposing - fell into the aromatic resin flowing out profusely from the amber-bearing trees 45 million years ago. Attempts to identify such specimens usually prove unsuccessful. Vary rarely found inclusions of whole small plant organisms, such as liverworts and mosses, are the most rewarding for researchers of amber flora. Such plant parts as flowers, fruit, seeds, needles, leaves, branches and resin-permeated wood can also be identified down to their genus or species. Pollen and spores, just as micro-organisms in amber, have yet to garner serious attention in Polish studies. The most numerous angiosperm remains are the stellate hairs torn off young leaves or leaf buds of oak which are ubiquitous in Baltic amber.

Morphological research has allowed palaeobotanists to identify 250 species of spore-bearing, herbaceous and arborescent plants from the amber-bearing forest. These include plants from diverse habitats: mountain, lowland and swamp plants. This diversity indicates, among other things, the diverse area of the amber-bearing forests. Furthermore, the co-existence of temperate climate species alongside subtropical and tropical elements has been found. Contemporary plant species which are comparable to the fossil plants found in Baltic amber occur in Africa, America , South Eastern Asia, China , Indonesia , Japan and Oceania.

In 1997, palaeobotanist Aleksandra Kohlman-Adamska distinguished three main amber-bearing forest communities. Coniferous forests in the higher mountains had sequoias, the Koyamaki ( Sciadopitys verticillata ) or Japanese umbrella pines, firs, spruces, larches and numerous representatives of the cypress family ( Cupressaceae ): the Californian incense-cedar ( Calocedrus decurrens ), Thujopsis , Chamaecyparis , and the Thuja . In the not very thick forest steppes, which covered lower parts of mountains, there were mainly pines, palms and numerous species of oak, both evergreen and with falling leaves; other trees grew there as well: beeches, chestnuts, maples, cycads from the genus Zamia ; shrubs, such as the magnolia, holly and some Laurel family ( Lauraceae ) plants; grasses dominated the undergrowth.

Swamp forests grew in the damp river valleys, and in them grew exotic Glyptostrobus pensilis (called water pines by the Chinese), shrubs from the Salicaceae , Myricaceae and Clethraceae families and herbaceous plants from the family Commelinaceae .

The Earth was much warmer in the Eocene. The equatorial sea currents which reached the southern part of Fennoscandia gave it a very warm subtropical climate: palm trees would grow up to 60° latitude. Further north there were conditions appropriate for warm temperate and temperate climate plants. The rivers flowing through these forests would carry smaller and larger dripstone resin forms and entire tree trunks with resin accumulated in all kinds of cracks inside and under the bark, and inside the tree. All this resinous material accumulated in the deltaic deposits of today''s southern Baltic underwent gradual physical and chemical transformations, which produced the amber nuggets we find today.

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