I didn't mean to imply that Toringo Crab was a wild plant, it's not. If it's not in a garden it would be an escape. And there are about a million species and cultivars of crabapple. But in addition to the multiple seeds in the fruit, you can see in that last picture that some of the leaves have 3 lobes, which you never see in cherries but is pretty common in some crabapples. And I have to say I've never seen cherries that look as good in fruit as crabapples do - something always eats them. By the way, it's too small to see in the photos but another way to tell the difference between cherries and apples is that anything in the genus Prunus, that is cherries and plums, has a couple little tiny glands at the top of the leafstalk - little bumps. Apples don't have that. WW

Esh, thanks. Grumpy Gardener is a great site, too. I have bookmarked it and am planning a trip to Birmingham. I have been wanting to go there anyway, and I only live a couple of hours from there. I will definitely visit that place.

Loved the story about the deer. I think the lady that writes that blog has visited the Ozark forum in the past.

It grows epiphytically on live oak and other trees throughout most of south Florida and other areas of the south. I don't know much about its northern range but I did find this website with a list of the states it grows in. Ploypodium also has some other interesting ferns in the US such as Polyopdium glycyrrhiza but they tend to be larger than the resurrection fern. I have seen this plant offered on Ebay and a few other places so you might want to try a search. http://www.floridata.com/ref/p/poly_pol.cfm Here is a link that might be useful: Fern info