Diane Hine - Angios**ms lyrics

The dinosaurs of early Cretaceous flashed color, pattern, sheen....yet conifers, cycads and ferns layered green on green on green....until some nonconforming cone with aspects shrunk or overblown, ‘bloomed' as something hitherto unknown, an audacious rudimentary flower. But this little mutant was a portent of power. Newfangled capacious leaves packed more water-pumping veins. Trees fed scented fruits and flowers from sweet self-composting potpourris. Ancestral figs, magnolias, planes, coevolving birds, tiny mammals, bees, all entangled in mutual gain. Think the dinosaurs rapacious? the flowering plants rampaged hellacious. By late Cretaceous, Earth was awash with ostentatious color. And today, in New Caledonia, fragment of old Gondwana, cloud forests hide a pioneer shrub, Amborella trichopoda. Minute pale ceraceous flowers, tepals in place of petals and sepals, primordial and tenacious. Outcast from a forging split, clue to Darwin's vast mystery. A glimpse of one vivacious spring, unsurpa**ed Cretaceous Spring.