Resurrection plant

A resurrection plant is a plant that will revive itself after it seems dead, or seems to revive, when in fact it is dead.

Examples of resurrection plants:


 * Commonly known as resurrection plant
 * Anastatica hierochuntica (Rose of Jericho) - native to the deserts of North Africa
 * Pleopeltis polypodioides (Resurrection fern)
 * Selaginella lepidophylla - native to North, Central, and South America, and is sold as a novelty item


 * Scientifically
 * Asteriscus
 * Mesembryanthemum
 * Ramonda serbica

Certain resurrection plants have been sold in their dry, "lifeless" forms as curiosities. This custom was noticed by many authors of the 19th Century, and still continues today.