How dry is dead? Evaluating the impact of desiccation on the viability of the invasive species .

is a succulent vine that degrades forests where it is not native by growing over trees and causing them to break or by impeding regeneration. Methods for its control have been tried but no satisfactory approach has been found yet. We carried out an experiment to analyze how much desiccation can endure before losing its ability to grow when rehydrated, using fragments of 0.