Resurrection plant

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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 (plant);^[1]
• Boea hygrometrica^[2]
• Mesembryanthemum.^[1]
• Myrothamnus flabellifolius, a plant species native to Southern Africa
• Ramonda serbica, a species in the Gesneriaceae family
• 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 desiccation^[3]

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

See also

• Dinosaur plant
• Hygrochasy
• Pleopeltis polypodioides, the resurrection fern

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