#treefern — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #treefern, aggregated by home.social.
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Back from the dead: #Tropical tree fern repurposes its dead leaves https://phys.org/news/2024-01-dead-tropical-tree-fern-repurposes.html
Zombie leaves: Novel repurposing of senescent fronds in the tree fern #Cyathea rojasiana in a tropical montane forest https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4248
"a species of #TreeFern found only in #Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant. The #fern reconfigures these zombie leaves reversing the flow of water to draw nutrients back into the #plant"