Jewels of Opar
Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Talinaceae
Also called Fameflower, Fame Flower, Jewels-Of-Opar, Pink baby's-breath, Pink Baby-Breath
Formerly Calandrinia andrewskii, Claytonia patens, Claytonia reflexa, Portulaca paniculata, and 8 more
When it flowers
Flowers September to July 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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from Brisbane City Council Weeds, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- myn
- dzumayail
- Spanish
- Quelite de monte, Carne gorda
- Indonesian
- Som Jawa
- Chinese
- 土人蔘, 土人參, 土人参
- Japanese
- ハゼラン
- Portuguese
- Beldroegão
- Chinese (China)
- 土人参, 栌兰
- Swedish
- bärnstensvippa
- Thai
- โสมไทยดอกช่อ
- Dutch
- Juwelen van Opar
- Italian
- Talinum panicolato
- Slovak
- talinum metlinaté
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Brisbane City Council Weeds, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Talinum paniculatum (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.