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rose of Jericho
[Cf. Ecclus. xxiv. 14.]
1. A small annual cruciferous plant (Anastatica hierochuntina), native to the arid deserts of South-west Asia and North-east Africa, the dried fronds of which unfold under the influence of moisture; the resurrection plant, Mary's flower, or rose of the Virgin.
c1400Three Kings Cologne 90 In þis wey þat oure lady seynt Marie ȝede in to Egipt, and..þat sche come aȝene, growe drye roses þe wich be cleped þe roses of Ierico. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 12 For lacke of that, thys rose of hierico semeth to be amomis. 1597[see heath n. 5 b]. 1601Holland Pliny II. 258 Likewise the iuice of the herb Amomum [marg. Rose of Iericho]. 1687Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 193 In the plain of Jericho, there are Roses of Jericho (as they call them).., they blow not unless they be put into water, and then they blow in all seasons. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 86 The Roses of Jericho were not to be found at this season. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rose of Jericho, Anastatica. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §762 Rose of Jericho,..remarkable for the hygrometric property of the old withered annual stems. 1872H. Macmillan True Vine vi. 257 Like the rose of Jericho, which..is carried by the wind to some moist place where its seed may be sown.
†b. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. App., Rose of Jericho, a name by which some call the Hesperis.
†2. transf. The Virgin Mary. Obs. rare.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 48 This rose of Jericho, ther grewh non suyche in May. Ibid. 96 This Rose of Jericho fresshest on lyve. c1485Digby Myst. i. 13 This glorious maiden..of Ierico the sote rose Floure. |