
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.
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North Africa to Pakistan.
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含生草,(学名Anastatica hierochuntica),又称耶利哥蔷薇(rose of Jericho)、复活草。是十字花科含生草属里唯一的一种植物。生长在內蓋夫和撒哈拉沙漠中。含生草的高度不超过15厘米,开白颜色的小花。 每年的雨季过后,含生草枯死,茎叶都卷曲起来成为一个紧密的球形,把种子包裹在里面。当雨季再次来临的时候,干燥的枯枝遇到水后就舒展开来,把里面的种子暴露出来。含生草的卷曲和舒展的转换是可逆的,可以在干燥和湿润的环境下反复多次进行。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).