How To Use Portulaca In A Sentence
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Close against them and overpeering their tops were hollyhocks and dahlias; against these stood at lesser height sweet peas, asters, zinnias, coreopsis and others of like stature; in front of these were poppies for summer, marigolds for autumn; beneath these again were verbenas, candytuft -- all this is sketched from memory, and I recall the winsome effect rather than species and names; and still below nestled portulaca and periwinkle.
The Amateur Garden
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When the weather warms up, sow seeds of cosmos, marigold, morning glory, portulaca, nasturtium, sunflower, and zinnia for splashes of color.
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The garden includes a Japanese maple and eight kinds of flowers, among them hydrangeas, petunias, pansies and portulaca.
Urban Oases
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Purslane (Portulaca oleracea, P. sativa) is a member of the Portulacaceae Family and also known as wild portulaca and verdolaga.
Brigitte Mars: Purslane: Gandhi's Favorite Food May Be a Weed in Your Yard
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Purslane (Portulaca oleracea, P. sativa) is a member of the Portulacaceae Family and also known as wild portulaca and verdolaga.
Brigitte Mars: Purslane: Gandhi's Favorite Food May Be a Weed in Your Yard
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Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is also used as a potherb and in salads and soups.
Chapter 7
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Poor in plant species; the most characteristics examples are: Scaevola plumieri, Portulaca pilosa, Cakile lanceolata, Cyperus planifolius, Sporobolus virginicus, Ipomoea pes-capreae and Euphorbia buxifolia.
Araya and Paria xeric scrub
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METHODS The models of the mice's external ears' swell induced by xylene and croton oil, and the water extract of Portulaca oleracea L the spring beauty'swater with drawing material to it.
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Other prominent succulent plant families include Euphorbiaceae, Asclepiadaceae (milkweeds and stapelias), Aloaceae and Portulacaceae (portulaca).
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This could be supplemented, of course, by portulaca, which was now flowering in the wet season, by such birds as they could shoot -- mainly ducks, hawks and crows -- and by fish; but their experiences in coming up to the Gulf had shown that they could not expect much from this source.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
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The garden includes a Japanese maple and eight kinds of lowers, among them hydrangeas, petunias, pansies and portulaca.
Urban Green
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In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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On a pleasant evening after work last week, Nurrenbern and his volunteers planted a variety of flora with whimsical names such as "Margarita Banana" portulaca, "Serena Purple" angelonia, and "Mint Mocha" coleus, as well as the better-known petunias.
Courierpress.com Stories
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Verdolaga (purslane) portulaca oleracea: Eaten either raw in salad or steamed in mole verde, this succulent annual is traditionally served in Mexico in a pork stew - espinazo con verdolagas - with a tomatillo-based sauce.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina
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The driest and lowest islands have an extremely simple flora, usually dominated by grass (Lepturus repens) and Tribulus cistoides or Portulaca lutea, sometimes with areas of T. argentea, P. acidula, and S. taccada scrub.
Central Polynesian tropical moist forests
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A flower whose name I learned in France is "pourpier," which is portulaca, a heat-tolerant plant with vividly colored blooms.
Vivace - French Word-A-Day
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A trailing Asian weed (Portulaca oleracea) having small yellow flowers, reddish stems, and fleshy obovate leaves that are sometimes cooked as a vegetable or used in salads.
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Plant hot weather annuals such as cockscomb, Madagascar periwinkle, portulaca, and annual salvias.
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Madeline sat very still, not saying a word, as she watched him march to and fro between the beds of verbena and love-lies-bleeding and portulaca.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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The functional character and exploitation of Portulaca oleracea L.
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Near the sycamore, where an old oak had fallen, the rotting stump was hidden by a high "rockery," edged with conch shells, and over the rough gray rocks a tangle of garden flowers ran wild -- sweet-william, petunias, phlox, and the mossy stems of red and yellow portulaca.
The Voice of the People
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Portulaca oleracea is a kind of wild vegetable having various nutritions and health functions.
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There are the usual gomphrena, gaillardia, kochia, portulaca, zinnia, amaranthus (cock's comb), balsam and sunflower.
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Then there are to be eschscholtzias, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, scabiosa, portulaca, yellow violas, yellow stocks, yellow sweet-peas, yellow lupins -- everything that is yellow or that has a yellow variety.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
