Thanks BenLurkin. [singing] 99 million year old flower in amber, 99 million year old flower...
Posted on 12/23/2020 5:43:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
Some people call pine resin “pine pitch.”
Pinus rigida, the Pitch Pine, is a little tree native to the Eastern US in the yellow pine category, for example, not much use for lumber as it is often crooked, but a source for pine pitch and turpentine.
Thats great. Thx for posting.
It will show up on Antique Road Show, worth only about $5,000 - $10,000 because it was improperly cleaned. Would’ve been worth about half a billion dollars otherwise.
Yes it was found in amber,
Yes it’s a flower,
But how do you know that it’s 99 million years old?
The last part has nothing to do with science.
Pitch is the form of tree extrusion that falls between liquid sap and semisolid resin.
Thanks BenLurkin. [singing] 99 million year old flower in amber, 99 million year old flower...
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