Portulaca

See also: portulaca

Translingual

Portulaca grandiflora

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin portulāca (“purslain”), from portula (“little door”), from porta (“door”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”), apparently because of the door-like opening of the seed capsule.

Proper noun

Portulaca f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Portulacaceae – the portulacas or purslanes.

See also

  • See Wikipedia for species
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