The real rose of Jericho is not a real rose. It was blessed by Maria It looks somewhat as a grey, dead ball when it’s dry, and somewhat like a branch of pine when made wet. It lives forever a hundred years and is said never to die, and thus being kept in families for over generations. You can keep it dry for years, and then put it in a cupboard of water cold or hot -even almost boiling hot, within seconds, it will revive and uncurl to a nice smelling and open, branch. You can keep it weet up to seven days, after which you dry it again on the central heating system