Dessication and Cell Walls

[Don Schaeffer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcR38ZOXtA
I looked at the cell walls in the leaves of a houseplant found at two stages of dessication (drying out). A leaf dried out to the point of brittleness had very little cell wall structure left. In the other leaf, still flexible, cell wall structure was still essentially normal.