![]() ![]() ![]() Seeds are often sold as mixtures, such as Double Flowering Mixture (see illustrations). In places with old architecture it can grow between the stones of the road or sidewalk. It requires almost no attention and spreads itself very easily. ![]() It requires ample sunlight and well-drained soils. It is widely grown in temperate climates as an ornamental plant for annual bedding or as a container plant. Numerous cultivars have been selected for double flowers with additional petals, and for variation in flower colour, plain or variegated. grandiflora is one of the few plants that is a C 4/CAM intermediate, utilizing both C 4 carbon fixation and Crassulacean acid metabolism pathways in different cells for photosynthesis. Around the ovary with four to nine whitish scars are about 50 stamens. The five bright magenta-coloured petals are obovate and 15 to 26 millimeters long. ![]() The large flowers reach a diameter of up to 4 centimetres. The compressed inflorescences are surrounded by eight to ten leaves. The axillary leaves have few to numerous whitish, woolly hairs which are usually shorter than the sheets. The spreading 20-to-25-millimeters-long and 2-to-3-millimeters-wide leaves are almost or completely stalk-shaped, and taper towards the tip. Their upright, or ascending, long shoots branch usually near the base. The flowers are 2.5–3 cm diameter with five petals, variably red, orange, pink, white, and yellow. The leaves are thick and fleshy, up to 2.5 cm long, arranged alternately or in small clusters. However, if it is cultivated properly, it can easily reach this height. It is a small, but fast-growing annual plant growing to 30 cm tall, though usually less. It is also seen in South Asia and widely spread in most of the cities with old 18th- and 19th-century architecture in the Balkans. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane. Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. ![]()
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