ScienceDaily — Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants about 130 million years ago as an abominable mystery, one that scientists have yet to solve.

But a new University of Florida study, set to appear in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is helping shed light on the mystery with information about what the first flowers looked like and how they evolved from nonflowering plants.

“There was nothing like them before and nothing like them since,” said Andre Chanderbali, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral associate at UF’s Florida Museum of Natural History. “The origin of the flower is the key to the origin of the angiosperms (flowering plants).”

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