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Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley) [3] is an annual (actually tropical perennial in USDA growing zones 10–11) succulent in the family Portulacaceae. Description
Similar in looks to Purslane, Spurge is an invasive toxic weed. Because it is low growing it resembles Purslane. It has round blue green leaves on thin stems which fan out in a circle.
Purslane is a common name for several mostly unrelated plants with edible leaves and may refer to: Portulacaceae , a family of succulent flowering plants, and especially: Portulaca oleracea , a species of Portulaca eaten as a leaf vegetable, known as summer purslane
Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is widely consumed as an edible plant, and in some areas it is invasive. Portulaca grandiflora is a well-known ornamental garden plant. Purslanes are relished by chickens. Some Portulaca species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the nutmeg moth (Hadula trifolii).
Portulacaria afra (known as elephant bush, porkbush, purslane tree, dwarf jade and spekboom in Afrikaans) is a small-leaved succulent plant found in South Africa. These succulents commonly have a reddish stem and green leaves, but a variegated cultivar is often seen in cultivation. They are simple to care for and make easy houseplants for a ...
The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family. It has a cosmopolitan distribution , with the highest diversity in semiarid regions of the Southern Hemisphere in Africa , Australia , and South America , but with a few species also extending north into Arctic regions.
Portulaca quadrifida, known as pusley, wild purslane, chicken weed (or chickenweed), single‑flowered purslane, small‑leaved purslane and 10 o'clock plant, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Portulaca, possibly native to Africa, but certainly widespread over the Old World Tropics, and introduced elsewhere. [2]
Portulaca lutea, the native yellow purslane, is a species of Portulaca that is indigenous to all of the main islands of Hawaii except for Kaua'i and is widespread throughout the Pacific Islands. [ 1 ]