Selaginella pilifera
Often sold as a novelty due its incredible ability to turn from a dry ball to a lush looking plant overnight when placed in a dish of water. Used for prosperity, abundance, health, protection and just sheer fun!
Resurrection Plant or Rose of Jericho
Selaginella pilifera
also known as the Resurrection flower, is a desert plant growing in the sands of Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Mexico. For long periods, these 'roses' live in desert regions, growing and reproducing as any other plant until the environment no longer supports an adequate existence. When this time comes, the flowers and leaves are dead and fallen, they lose moisture and the drying branches curl inwards, forming a round ball.
They retract their roots from the soil and allow the desert winds to carry them across the desert,
until one day they arrive in a damp place where they can continue to grow and spread.
The ball then expands again, opens flat on the ground and deposits its seeds, which germinate. Once watered, the dried-up looking young plants soon begin to bud. You could say they feel their way through this process,
as they don't necessarily remain in the first place they stop, but feel into the nature of the place to see if it is adequate to enhance growth. There they may stay, and grow, or indeed they may move again many times.
This amazing little resurrection plant is often sold as a novelty due its incredible ability to turn from a dry ball to a lush looking plant ove night when placed in a dish of water. These plants have used this ability to survive since prehistoric times.Therefore another common name given to them is "the dinosaur plant." Great for show and tell, too, as every kid is amazed at watching one of these wonders of nature unfold and seemingly come to life again.
Instructions for resurrection included.
Magickal Uses:
Used for Peace, Power, and Love.
A Rose of Jericho in the home erases bad influences
and brings peace, power and abundance.
Directions:Place the Rose of Jericho in a bowl of water in your home. Wash your hands in the water to cleanse them before doing spellwork, sprinkle it on your face and body to gain a personal blessing, or use the water to scrub your front steps, entry way and other floors. The water from this plant can be sprinkled about the house to erase negative influences, bring peace, harmony and abundance.
Long lived, The Rose Of Jericho can be used over and over again for 50 years or more.
