A team of scientists has assessed fossilized specimens discovered in Spanish lakes a century ago. After the assessment, they have affirmed that the specimens were the oldest flowering plants on earth.

The flower is called as Montsecia vidalii, an aquatic plant, which is quite plain and is not very beautiful as per today's standards. Researchers affirmed that rather having a floral look; it was more plain-like. The plants have estimated to have lived over 130 million years ago, during the Cretacious period. It was the time when dinosaurs used to roam on earth.

David Dilcher, a paleobotanist at Indiana University said that it is the 'oldest submerged aquatic plant that we have any fossil record of'. The flower does not have petal or fragrance and it also did not produce any nectar.

The flower is having a seed and also had a system of pollination. Study researchers said that the flower did not require insects. It worked underwater and used water currents in the lakes. "This discovery raises vital questions concerning the early evolutionary historical past of flowering crops, in addition to the position of those crops within the evolution of different plant and animal life", affirmed Dilcher from the IU Bloomington School of Arts and Sciences' Division of Geological Sciences.

The research is considered to be a significant contribution in the continued mission to know more about the evolutionary and ecological incidents. With the help of a stereomicroscope, mild microscope and scanning electron microscope, the flower was assessed.