Comments on: Rose of Jericho

By: Bri

Bri — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:05:51 +0000

I love them! I’ve had a few and somehow I managed to _actually_ kill these things. I left them in the same water too long and they became moldy…

For those of you in the bay area, I know for sure you can buy them at Paxton Gate in SF, which I’m certain has been mentioned on Coilhouse before.

They also have a website and will probably ship them to any botanical/witchy-store-lacking areas!

By: Adam Etzion

Adam Etzion — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:04:08 +0000

Heh, Shay, you beat me to it.

By: Paul Komoda

Paul Komoda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:16:17 +0000

That’s quite extraordinary! I’d never heard of this plant before.
Visually it puts me in mind of one of my favorite creatures, the Gorgonocephlus, or Basket Star-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SiNJ1T3Xbs&feature=related

By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:48:20 +0000

These days running across zombies on the internet is an everyday occurrence. You deal with it as best you can, you prepare yourself with shotguns and cricket bats. The undead rise (yet again) and you make sure your roommates are on the same playbook but otherwise its not that big of a deal.

Cultivating undead flora on the other hand seems to be a disaster in the making. These things can live decades without water but what makes you think they won’t drink someone you care about. WHEN YOU LEAST SUSPECT IT.

ZOMBIE PLANTS DRINK PEOPLE!

By: Geozilla

Geozilla — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:11:46 +0000

As someone who studies astrobiology and early life I would just like to point out that dessication tolerance (poikilohydry) is a common life strategy among the earliest terrestrial and transitional organisms. Dessication tolerance made these organisms viable colonizers of the otherwise sterile landscape of early continents. The earliest land would have been dry and harsh with no true soils (which is a biogenic product) or weathered clays to hold moisture on the surface. Dessication tolerance is common in algae, all lichen and many bryophytes (including the lycophyta, of which Selaginella is one). Dessication tolerance is very rare in “higher” plants, like the Anastatica, which likely readopted this lifestyle in order to take an advantage of an otherwise empty ecologic niche.

So, to say all of this in a less dorked out way, lycophyta and it’s poikilohydric ilk are amazing diehards, true pioneers, explorers from another world – they made their way on to a hostile land 425 million years ago, dominated the continents and paved the way for all other land life on this planet. And I think they totally kick ass (botanically speaking).

Also, you should expand ‘flora and fauna’ tag to be ‘flora, fauna and fungi’ since fungi are neither plant nor animal but their own independent kingdom of life.

By: Shay

Shay — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:34:22 +0000

In Hebrew, the term ‘Rose of Jericho’ (“Shoshanat Yericho”) generally refers to Leishmaniasis.

Just thought I’d mention that.

By: lycophyte

lycophyte — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:19:50 +0000

a bloom inside would indeed bring luck, as it is a non-flowering plant.