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Boea hygroscopica
About
Boea hygroscopica is one of 15 species of flowering plant of the Boea genus in the gesneriad family. It is considered a 'resurrection plant' because of its ability to withstand virtually total water loss. Detached leaves of B. hydroscopica can withstand desiccation by increasing the small amount of constitutive glutathione by up to 50 times.
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Boea hygroscopica
- Slug
- boea-hygroscopica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Genus
- Boea
- Species
- hygroscopica
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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