When dry weather hits, resurrection fern shrivels up to reduce its surface area and goes dormant. Special proteins called dehydrins protect its cells from damage, so cell walls can shrink and stretch ...
This native plant grows just as well in a garden bed as it does on a dead tree trunk or log. What: Almost omnipresent in the crooks of big-leaf maples throughout the forests of the maritime Pacific ...
When dry weather hits, resurrection fern shrivels up to reduce its surface area and goes dormant. Special proteins called dehydrins protect its cells from damage, so cell walls can shrink and stretch ...