I vaguely remember buying and planting this novelty plant several years ago in a shaded garden, and forgot all about it because I thought...Read More it died. Last summer I came across this strange looking plant and was completely baffled as to what it was and only after doing online research rediscovered it's identity. It is currently thriving, hidden beneath a Pieris and a hydrangea in a heavily shaded moist clayey area. I plan to move both shrubs this fall to better conditions and I worry that this tiny weird thing will not survive in a more exposed situation. I think the spike moss actually moved itself (!) because I would never have purposely planted such a small plant under the potentially large shrubs, either that or I thought it was a dead weed and chucked it with my garden fork while weeding and it made itself a new home where it landed and escaped the weed pile. I would like to move it to a spot nearby with the same conditions where I can more easily marvel at it's resilience and show it off. It's the oddest looking thing, really. It is listed as a "tropical tender" plant in zones 8 and higher, but I live squarely in zone 7a/b and this plant is thriving. According to a BBC special narrated by David Attenborough it can be "dead" for as long as 100 years (!!) yet still come back to life. I don't know why this plant isn't more widely used in shade gardens as a border, it's really quite unusual and apparently indestructible.
I ordered a Resurrection Plant online through a shop on Amazon and it was a dry, dead-looking ball. After I placed my order I started rea...Read Moreding many complaints about online ordering plants that were dead. I was a little afraid I'd wasted my money.
Not wanting to just give up, I soaked it in warm water and then let it sit in a shallow dish of water. It started opening up whinin 2 hours...still brown. But within 8 hours it had fully open and had slowly turned turned a deep pine green! I was so thrilled. It's still green after several weeks and sitting on my desk near a sunny window.
I have been given one of these, but am not sure what to do with it. Do I plant it in soil or just keep it in water? At the moment it's ju...Read Morest in water. Any help out there? Bramblewoude
This plant is also known as a dinosaur plant due to the fact that a much larger versions (120 feet) were growing during the age of the di...Read Morenosaurs (Carboniferous period). They contributed to the coal deposits that were later formed. It is sold in Mexican markets for use as a diuretic. It is made into an absorbitive powder by pharmacetical corporations. It is also used in fireworks. It is being studied by gene researchers to make crop plants more drought resistant. It is found in Texas around Big Bend National Park, and in parts of Mexico. It can survive in it's dry state up to around 50 years! Pretty amazing!
As far as i know the plants is a native to desert and semi-desert regions from Texas to South America. It is given its common name becaus...Read Moree of its habit of curling into a tight ball and turning brown when dry and opening out flat and turning green when water is again available.I'ts also know as resurrection plant
I vaguely remember buying and planting this novelty plant several years ago in a shaded garden, and forgot all about it because I thought...Read More
I ordered a Resurrection Plant online through a shop on Amazon and it was a dry, dead-looking ball. After I placed my order I started rea...Read More
Native to the USA (New Mexico and Texas), Mexico, and El Salvador.
I have been given one of these, but am not sure what to do with it. Do I plant it in soil or just keep it in water? At the moment it's ju...Read More
totally cool plant. I have also heard it called a Dinosaur Plant.
This plant is also known as a dinosaur plant due to the fact that a much larger versions (120 feet) were growing during the age of the di...Read More
These are often advertized as miracle plants. They do not flower, but reproduce by spores.
As far as i know the plants is a native to desert and semi-desert regions from Texas to South America. It is given its common name becaus...Read More