Portulaca oleracea L.

English: Common Purslane

German: Portulak

Mandarin: 马齿苋 (ma chi xian)

Portuguese: Beldroega-de-comer

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Caryophyllales (112)

        Family: Portulacaceae (6)(family description)

          Genus: Portulaca (5)

            Epithet: oleracea L. (5)

oleracea => edible garden herb

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical, tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [29] Image of Portulaca oleracea - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz
• [343] Portulaca oleracea - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
• [646] Portulaca oleracea - Plants For A Future database
• [1200] Portulaca - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
• [1350] Portulaca oleracea - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [4] Parham, B.E.V. and Healy, A.J. (1985): Common weeds in New Zealand. Hasselberg, Government Printer, Wellington, New Zealand.
• [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.