Martin’s Reviews > Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses > Status Update

“Mosses may lose up to 98 percent of their moisture, and still survive to restore themselves when water is replenished. Even after forty years of dehydration in a musty specimen cabinet, mosses have been fully revived after a dunk in a Petri dish.
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Only twenty minutes after wetting, the moss can go from dehydration to full vigor.”