the story of resurrection ferns and my late colleague who helped discover them in Australia
- Written by Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne
Rock fern, _Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia_Donald Hobern/Wikimedia, CC BY-SAOne afternoon in the late 1970s, my colleague and fellow student Helen Quirk handed me a brown, shrivelled fern frond. It appeared to be dead, and was so dry that when I crushed it between my fingers it disintegrated into a powder.
We placed another piece on a petrie dish and...





