Yesterday morning we poured a little tap water into a Petri dish containing a dormant resurrection fern, Polypodium polypodioides. We rehydrated the fern at 8:00 am on Wednesday, 26 August. These native ferns can remain dehydrated but alive for up to 50 years! After a good rain they will be green and lush in about 48 hours.
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Could you actually take the dried plant and put it in a baggy/pan for multiple years and it would survive?
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