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This plant was collected and pressed on May 23. The press went into the dryer on June 18 after I had collected more specimens on a road trip. I unpacked the press on July 6 (the succulent plants take a long time to dry). In case you fail to appreciate what is going on here, note the little whitish, downward-pointing stem in the middle of the photograph: this is etiolated new growth that grew IN THE DRYER. A couple of other specimens had also produced new growth while in the dryer.
A new post! Hooray! How do you explain new growth in the dryer? Your samples must really like hot, dry conditions. Or else they have a mighty survival mechanism.
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