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Anastatica hierochuntica
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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 15 centimetres (6 in) 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.
- Family
- Brassicaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Anastatica hierochuntica
- Slug
- anastatica-hierochuntica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Anastatica
- Species
- hierochuntica
- Wikidata QID
- Q1281021
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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