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Portulaca

noun

A plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers.

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Portulaca grandiflora

Portulaca oleracea

genus Portulaca

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"Portulaca" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jessie can approve. Miss Jessie answers that the ship is "a love". The sides are yellow as marigold, The port-lids are red when the ports are up: Blood-red squares like an even chequer Of yellow asters and portulaca. There is a wide "black strake" at the waterline And above is a blue like the sky when the weather is fine. The inner bulwarks are painted red. "Why?" asks Miss Jessie. "'Tis a horrid note." Mr. Nichols ...

— Men, Women and Ghosts • Amy Lowell

... cabbage—there would even be vegetables for which there is no American name. Mrs. Kohler was always getting by mail packages of seeds from Freeport and from the old country. Then the flowers! There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks. Beside the fruit trees there was a great umbrella-shaped catalpa, and a balm-of-Gilead, two lindens, and even a ginka,—a rigid, pointed tree with leaves shaped like butterflies, which shivered, but never bent to ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

Words linked to "Portulaca" : flower, sun plant, Portulaca oleracea, rose moss, genus Portulaca, Portulaca grandiflora