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A resurrection plant is any plant with the habit of reviving after seeming to be dead or of seeming to revive when being in fact dead.

Examples include

• Anastatica hierochuntica, also known as the Rose of Jericho, native to deserts of North Africa
• Pleopeltis polypodioides, the resurrection fern
• Selaginella lepidophylla, native to North America, Central, and South America, and sold as a novelty item
• Asteriscus;
• Mesembryanthemum.
• Ramonda serbica

The first three of these are commonly known as Resurrection Plant.

Certain resurrection plants have long been sold in their dry, "lifeless" form as curiosities. This custom was noted by many 19th century authors, and continues today.

References

1. http://faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombrello/pow/resurrection_plant.htm
2. ^ Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916). The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. Vol. 5. The Macmillan company. pp. 2920–2921, 3639.

See also

• Dinosaur plant
• Hygrochasy

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