Anastatica hierochuntica
Anastatica hierochuntica (Rose of Jericho) is a desert annual. Leaves rounded-wavy. Flowers white tiny, fruits rounded and small. After drying the plant closes like a fist, waiting for the next rain to disperse its seeds. In the extreme desert it could take years for the next rain to come. In this pictures you can see hundreds of small plants ("fists").
Anastatica is a monotypic genus with the type species "Anastatica hierochuntica". The plant is a small gray annual herb that rarely grows above 15 centimetres high, and bears minute white flowers. It is a tumbleweed and a resurrection plant.
Similar species: Brassicales
By Ori Fragman Sapir
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Uploaded Jan 13, 2019. Captured Jan 12, 2019 15:03 in 90, Israel.
