East Tennessee State University: Paleontologists Discover Extinct Relative of Tennessee State Wildflower
December 18, 2021
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 . . .
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 . . .