Trees & Plants

Common purslane

Gedha, Gandhaa fellaa

Portulaca oleracea L.

Common in open at areas Commonly eaten fresh or cooked or used in salads, soups, stews, and tomato sauces. The whole plant is useful in gastropathy, tumours, inflammations, of wounds, jaundice, diabetes, cephalalgia, burning sensation, abdominal disorders, piles, oedema, bronchia

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uses: Commonly eaten fresh or cooked or used in salads, soups, stews, and tomato sauces. The whole plant is useful in gastropathy, tumours, inflammations, of wounds, jaundice, diabetes, cephalalgia, burning sensation, abdominal disorders, piles, oedema, bronchial asthma, 5, poisoning, polyuria, eye diseases and trachyphonia. Th reat: The plant is invasive in agricultural fields in some countries.
family: Portulacaceae
synonym: Portulaca consanguinea Schltdl., Portulaca latifolia Hornem.
description: Annual fleshy herbs, with numerous decumbent branches. Leaves spiral or sub-opposite, often crowded at × ends of branches, 1-3 0.2-1.5 cm, sessile or subsessile, obovate or spathulate, cuneate or or attenuate at base, rounded or truncate at apex. Flowers sessile, ca. 3 mm across, in terminal, 1-15, surrounded by a cluster of crowded leaves; bracts ovate-acuminate, membranous. Sepals connate at base into a ca. 2 mm long tube. Petals 4 or 5, connate at base, broadly obovate or oblong- × obovate, rarely emarginate at apex, 4-8 2-6 Th mm, yellow. Stamens 7-12. Ovary ovoid. fi Capsules ovoid, enveloped by marcescent corolla, dehiscing transversely in middle; seeds many, reniform, 0.5-1mm across, granular, dull black.
native range: Middle East and the Indian subcontinent
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Common purslane · Garden purslane · Indian purslane
flowering fruiting: June – September Probably North Africa, the
occurrence maldives: Common in open at areas