A small annual cruciferous plant, Anastatica hierochuntica, found in arid deserts of south-west Asia and north-east Africa, the dried fronds of…

(a) the rose of Jericho, Anastatica hierochuntina; (b) also, any plant of the Australian genus Marianthus (family Pittosporaceae).

any of various plants, chiefly of desert regions, which curl up in dry conditions and appear dead, but which expand again when moistened and revive…