Resurrection plant
A resurrection plant is a generic term used for poikilohydric plants that can survive extreme dehydration, typically even over months or years.
The resurrection plant Selaginella lepidophylla reviving within 3 hours after the addition of water.
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]
- Haberlea rhodopensis
- Mesembryanthemum.[1]
- Tillandsia
- 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.
See also
- Dehydration
- Cryptobiosis
- Anhydrobiosis
- Dinosaur plant
- Hygrochasy
- Pleopeltis polypodioides, the resurrection fern
References
- ^ a b Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916). The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 5. The Macmillan company. pp. 2920–2921; 3639.
- ^ Zhang, T.; Fang, Y.; Wang, X.; Deng, X.; Zhang, X.; Hu, S.; Yu, J. (2012). "The Complete Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Genome Sequences of Boea hygrometrica: Insights into the Evolution of Plant Organellar Genomes". In Badger, Jonathan H. PLoS ONE 7 (1): e30531. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030531. PMC 3264610. PMID 22291979.
- ^ "Resurrection Plant". Faculty.ucc.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
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