Resurrection plants can wither to nothing in a drought, then spring back to life. Jill Farrant thinks the feat holds lessons for crops

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—On a hillside 20 minutes from central Cape Town sits a colossal monument to Cecil Rhodes, the late–19th century mining magnate, prime minister of the British Cape Colony, and founder of the territory of Rhodesia, in what is now Zimbabwe and Zambia. Resembling a Greek temple, the tribute to British imperialism has fallen out of favor in postapartheid South Africa, and Rhodes’s statue has been vandalized several times. But its terraces offer expansive views of the University of Cape Town (UCT)—whose main campus sits on land donated by Rhodes—and the Cape Flats, a densely populated area southeast of the city center.

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