Hermsen Lab

  I attended the Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia from May 6th to 7th to present the talk "Seeds of Passiflora  subgenus Decaloba  from the early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site of Tennessee." 

Modern and ancient passionflowers. Left: A maypop flower. Right: A fossil seed. I have recent been doing outreach about the fossil passionflowers I described from Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee. See the following for more: ETSU News: "Paleontologists discover extinct relative of Tennessee state wildflower":  https://www.etsu.edu/etsu-news/2021/12-december/passionflower.php In Defense of Plants: Episode 360: Exploring a 4.5 million year old flora:  https://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2022/3/13/ep-360-exploring-a-45-million-year-old-flora