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East Tennessee State University: Paleontologists Discover Extinct Relative of Tennessee State Wildflower
December 18, 2021
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Dec. 18 (TNSJou) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news on Dec. 17, 2021:

For Tennesseans, passion flowers are a point of regional pride, officially designated as a Tennessee state flower back in 1919. Now, a century later, paleontologists have found fossil evidence of an extinct Appalachian passion flower species, Passiflora appalachiana, previously unknown to science.

This ancient species is unique to the fossil record of . . .

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