Wingpod purslane
পর্তুলিকা
Portulaca umbraticola Kunth
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 25 cm
- wide
- —
Portulacaceae
Also called Wing-pod portulaca, Wingpod portulaca
Formerly Portulaca coronata, Portulaca denudata, Portulaca plano-operculata
When it flowers
Flowers July to May in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & SE. U.S.A. to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 25 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Portuguese
- Onze-horas
- Chinese
- 馬齒牡丹, 环翅马齿苋
- Chinese (China)
- 环翅马齿苋
- Russian
- Портулак тенелюбивый
- Arabic
- رجلة مجنحة القرنة
- Spanish
- Verdolaga con flor
- Finnish
- kruunuportulakka
- Japanese
- ハナスベリヒユ
- Polish
- portulaka zakryta
- Turkish
- Süs Semizotu
- Bangla
- পর্তুলিকা
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Portulaca umbraticola (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.