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Resurrection Plant
Resurrection Plant
Image © Stephen Shirley

Resurrection Plant

Selaginella lepidophylla


 

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Supplied as a dried tennis ball sized plant.

 

 

In less than 24 hours this apparently lifeless and dead in appearance 'ball' of shrivelled up fern leaves will burst into vivid green growth! Truly a miracle of nature and one could say a living fossil! This plant has survived since it first evolved in the Cambrian Period of Earth's creation 570 million years ago - and like all life forms developed from algae.

Supplied as a dried tennis ball sized plant.



Resurrection Plant

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Kept in its dry 'dead' state (as we dispatch it) it will remain so until you place it upside down for half an hour in a small bowl of water - yes the dead looking roots uppermost. After half an hour turn it up the other way in the bowl and place on a well lit window sill position. Within 24 hours it comes alive! You can keep it like this (in a bowl of water) or pot up into moist growing medium. Let it dry out if you wish and it will curl up into the dried up ball as you received. It will re-awaken in a few days if you repeat the procedure or similarly you could leave it for a week, a year, 10 years or even longer!



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just been watching Stephen's video on potting and preparation. In it he mentioned growing on the window sill and the need to watch out for your seedlings stretching. Since illness forced me to give up my allotment my 'garden' is an 8'x 30' paved back yard which runs east west so the side wall of my kitchen and garage is south facing. Along this wall I have a 6' x 6' x 2' leanto greenhouse. To try and overcome the problem of light from one direction I have covered some A4 card in tinfoil and fasten this round the plant pot with an elastic to reflect some light. The pots with domed covers are stood in plastic tubes, the packaging from Sony printer cartridges, which provide insulation . The heaters in my green house are two 100w clear bulbs inside two large grapefruit tins which provide enough warmth to the shelves at the rear of the greenhouse to bring on my tomato seedlings. A small parafin lamp is used as backup if needed. I raised over 400 bedding plants along with tomato plants cucumber,potatoes,raspberries,strawberries,gooseberries,apples,morello cherries and salad last year,so it is possible t o garden in the smallest area. Thanks again to all at Victoriana and thanks for the interesting and informative videos which are brilliant.
Phil Main, Hindley Green
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