portulaca

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I also pull portulaca and add it to my salads.

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(horticulture) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers

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noun

(horticulture) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers

noun

(botany) Any plant in the genus Portulaca

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for portulaca.

noun

(horticulture) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers

noun

(botany) Any plant in the genus Portulaca

Example sentences

I also pull portulaca and add it to my salads.

There is a ton of wild plants or animals that you can eat and probably normally don't (dandelion, wild fennel, portulaca, nettles, jellyfish etc), I wouldn't focus too much on one that may be extinct.

> You can only grow non-calorically dense foods in vertical farms Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) grows on the sidewalk already, and often next to some wild amaranth (Amarathus Hybridus).

Proper noun examples

> You can only grow non-calorically dense foods in vertical farms Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) grows on the sidewalk already, and often next to some wild amaranth (Amarathus Hybridus).