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Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the purslane family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has many common names , including rose moss , [ 4 ] eleven o'clock , [ 3 ] Mexican rose , [ 3 ] moss rose , [ 3 ] sun rose , [ 5 ] table rose , [ citation ...
Portulaca (/ ˌ p ɔːr tj uː ˈ l eɪ k ə / [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Portulacaceae, and is the type genus of the family. With over 100 species, it is found in the tropics and warm temperate regions.
The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus Portulaca. [2] Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera being placed elsewhere.
In the 4th century BC, Theophrastus names purslane, andrákhne (ἀνδράχνη), as one of the several summer pot herbs that must be sown in April (Enquiry into Plants 7.1.2). [35] As Portulaca it figures in the long list of comestibles enjoyed by the Milanese given by Bonvesin de la Riva in his "Marvels of Milan" (1288).
Its decumbent peduncle measures 7 centimetres (2.8 in) long; its flowers are solitary or in groups of 2 or 3; perigone tube is urceolate, twice as wide as high, its diameter measuring up to 30 millimetres (1.2 in), counting with 11 or 12 whitish and purplish mottled lobes, each one counting with a basal white appendage.
Stauntonia grandiflora [1] is a plant in the family Lardizabalaceae. The native range of this species is South-Central China to Vietnam. It is a climber and grows primarily in the temperate biome. [2] [3]
Kadsura induta (Yunnan, Guangxi, Vietnam) Kadsura renchangiana (Guangxi) Kadsura heteroclita (China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Borneo, Sumatra) Kadsura longipedunculata (China) Kadsura oblongifolia (Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan) Kadsura japonica (Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan) Kadsura philippinensis (Philippines) Kadsura angustifolia ...
The genus Tibouchina was established by Aublet in 1775 in his Flora of French Guiana with the description of a single species, T. aspera, which is thus the type species. [10] [11] In 1885, in his treatment for Flora brasiliensis, Alfred Cogniaux used a broad concept of the genus, transferring into it many of the species at that time placed in Chaetogastra, Diplostegium, Lasiandra, Pleroma and ...