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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, a plant species native to deserts of North Africa
- Asteriscus;
- Mesembryanthemum.
- Myrothamnus flabellifolius, a plant species native to Southern Africa
- Ramonda serbica
- Selaginella lepidophylla, a plant species native to North America, Central and South America, and sold as a novelty
- Lichen, a symbiosis that can survive in extreme dessication
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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
- ^ Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916). The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. Vol. 5. The Macmillan company. pp. 2920–2921, 3639.
- http://faculty.ucc.edu/biology-ombrello/pow/resurrection_plant.htm
See also
- Dinosaur plant
- Hygrochasy
- Pleopeltis polypodioides, the resurrection fern
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