Flowers have a fleeting beauty, fading shortly after they are plucked. Pressing or preserving them can extend their beauty briefly, but a chance encounter with tree sap can stretch that time out by millions of years.

Imagine you're a bee. Buzz, buzz, you're looking for flowers. Good for you. Now, as you might imagine, there are competing bees afoot--naturally you're not the only species looking for pollen and nectar. Let's say you've found a nice cluster of flowers, a good source of food. You might imagine that with competing bees--eavesdroppers--around, it is best to communicate quietly. In many cases, you would be right. But that's not always true. Sometimes it is best to conspicuously communicate the location of a food source to your friends, eavesdroppers be damned!

Flowers from the Ganjoji "space tree" also look a bit different, containing five petals, as opposed to about 30 like their parent trees.