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[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 needed] rock rose, [5] and moss-rose purslane. Despite these names and the superficial resemblance of some cultivars' flowers to roses , it is not a true rose, nor even a part of the rose family or ...
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.
Rhodobryum roseum, commonly known as rose moss, is a species of moss of the subclass Bryidae and family Bryaceae, found throughout most of the world in woods or sheltered grassy places. It rarely forms sporophytes and spore cases, and primarily reproduces vegetatively by stolons , horizontal stems that root at the nodes, resulting in ...
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.
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: ...
Moss roses are cherished for this trait, but as a group they have not contributed to the development of new rose classifications. Various hybrids with other roses have yielded different forms, such as the modern miniature creeping moss rose 'Red Moss Rambler' (Ralph S. Moore, 1990).
[4]: 226 Club-moss (Ivesia lycopodioides) is not a moss, but a low growing perennial, with erect, but sprawling stems, growing in the crevices of rock ledges and in wet meadows. [6]: 139 Mousetail ivesia (Ivesia santolinoides) has long silvery leaves, and grows on gravels and ridges to 12,000 feet (3,700 m).
"Moss" on the bud of a centifolia moss rose a blooming flower of Rosa centifolia foliacea at D.I Yogyakarta. Rosa × centifolia (lit. hundred leaved rose; syn. R. gallica var. centifolia (L.) Regel), the Provence rose, cabbage rose or Rose de Mai, is a hybrid rose developed by Dutch breeders in the period between the 17th century and the 19th century, possibly earlier.