What are the odds of an Eocene Garden from this?

In the study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, researchers in Berlin and Vienna identified a 40-million-year-old flower, preserved in amber resin, by extracting its pollen. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24549-z

"Day of the Triffids" when?

My allergies: heavy breathing intensifies

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what are the odds citrus still finds a way to crossbreed

There was 40 million years of cosmic rays whipping through that amber. Wouldn't get my hopes up.

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