It started raining early Saturday morning and by mid-morning on Sunday, new sprouts of the licorice fern had already began to emerge.
Licorice ferns usually grow on fallen logs, tree trunks or rocks in mossy beds where their roots can be protected. They are considered summer-deciduous here—with the lack of rainfall during the summer, these plants die back. The first rains at the end of summer or the beginning of fall, like we experienced this weekend, will awaken the new leaves.
