Portulaca grandiflora
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Aromatic and Herbaceous

Portulaca grandiflora

:: 10/20 cm
Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the purslane family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, table rose, rock rose, 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 rosid group; rather, it is much more closely related to carnations and cacti. It is also seen in South Asia and widely spread in most of the cities with old 18th- and 19th-century architecture in the Balkans.
Campestris
PS.4200.02