Resurrection plants

Anastatica is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae containing the single species Anastatica hierochuntica or the true rose of Jericho. The plant is a small gray annual herb that rarely grows above high, and bears minute white flowers. It is a capable of hygroscopic expansion and retraction. However, it is not a true resurrection plant, because the plant's dead tissues do not revive and turn green.

species of plant

list of plants with the same or similar names