Sun plant
Portulaca grandiflora
Also known as Common rose moss, Rose moss, Ten O' clock plant
About Sun plant
Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the purslane family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, rose Jepun, table rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane. Despite these names and the superficial resemblance of some cultivars' flowers to roses, it is not a true rose, nor even a part of the rose family or rosid group; rather, it is much more closely related to carnations and cacti. 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.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Portulaca grandiflora
- Genus
- Portulaca
- Family
- PORTULACACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Distribution
- Introduced elsewhere
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- Nonia नोनिया, पोर्टुलाका ग्रन्डीफ़्लोरा
- Nepali
- दशबजे फूल
- Bengali
- টাইম ফুল
- Telugu
- గడ్డి గులాబి, టేబుల్ రోజా
Portulacaceae
Purslane Family
Sun plant belongs to the Portulacaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
Explore the PORTULACACEAE family →Snap it. Know it.
Point your camera at sun plant or any plant and SASYA identifies it instantly — on-device, offline, and private.