Imagine a fruit that tastes like peanut butter dipped in honey. That's peanut butter plant

Despite its cute name and one-of-a-kind fruit, the peanut butter plant is considerably more than a novelty.

This surprisingly cold-hardy species – Bunchosia argentea or armeniaca – is native to northern and western South America, where it grows 10 to 30 feet tall in full or part-day sun. From late spring through summer, tight clusters of small yellow flowers appear, followed by inch-wide, dull orange fruit that tastes like peanut butter sweetened with honey. The attractive fruit – up to 200 per 10-foot plant – are extremely nutritious and high in anti-oxidants.

An evergreen species related to Barbados cherry, peanut butter plant grows rapidly on well-drained, mulched sites. Once established, it’s able to survive all but extreme drought. This plant can be cultivated as a shrub or tree and makes a fine addition to mixed shrubbery borders, where most specimens top out at 15 feet tall. Each fruit contains a single seed that can be used for propagation. Plants and seeds are offered online. Note: Some Clerodendrums are known as peanut butter trees.

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Native from Delaware and Oklahoma to Central America and Southern Africa, resurrection fern is famous for its ability to recover from months-long droughts.

It’s been determined that this epiphytic species (Polypodium polypodioides) can lose up to 90% of the moisture in its cells but fully recover within 48 hours after moderate rainfall.

In Florida, resurrection fern typically grows – wholly non-parasitically – on the branches of Southern live oak trees. It can be cultivated in wide, relatively shallow clay containers filled with bark chips. Drainage holes are essential.

The true rose of Jericho

Do you remember the song "Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds"? It’s generally associated with two singing cowboys – Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey. Actually, tumbleweeds are annual plants that grow, flower and produce seeds before dying and breaking off from their root systems. What follows is tumbling in the wind, dispersing seeds as the plants roll.

One of the most well-known tumbleweeds is rose of Jericho, also called resurrection plant. A 6- to 8-inch, white-flowered, gray-leaved species (Anastatica hierochuntica), rose of Jericho can endure drought conditions for up to five years. They manage by dropping their leaves and curling into a ball of seemingly desiccated branches. If rain comes in time, and a plant is still rooted, it miraculously revives, developing foliage and flowers.

This species is called the true rose of Jericho, while a pretender – a Chihuahuan desert spikemoss – is known as false rose of Jericho, though online dealers often omit "false." Just realize that the true rose of Jericho can’t be revived after it’s uprooted, while the false version can be "resurrected" multiple times and is widely cultivated as a novelty houseplant. Available online.