fossil flower heads

“Araliaceous infructescence of globose heads,” from the late Eocene of Florissant, Colorado: UF 18722-30277. This specimen was collected and donated by George Hecht, and was figured as Plate 3, fig. 3 in Manchester, S.R. 2001. Update on the megafossil flora of Florissant, Colorado. Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Series 4, Number 1, pp.137-161.