Resurrection plant


A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years.
reviving within 3 hours after the addition of water.
Examples include
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.
In December, 2015, resurrection plants were featured in a TED talk given by Professor Jill Farrant
, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, who performs targeted genetic modification of crop plants to make them tolerate desiccation by activating genes that are already there but not natively expressed in response to drought.