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  • COMMON NAME: edible purslane
  • ARABIC: البربير، فريفرو، رجله، بقله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Portulaca oleracea L.
  • SYNONYMS: Portulaca consanguinea Schltdl.
  • FAMILY: PORTULACACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Purslane has a high tolerance for salt toxicity. Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:323270-2 Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Highly salt tolerant. Used as a demulcent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory and antibiotic. Vegetable crop for human consumption and for livestock forage. Rich in Vitamin C used for greening of water-front areas. Honey nectar plants. Leaves also applied to soothe skin or draw abscesses. Whole plant is effective as a bactericide in bacterial dysentery and diarrhea. Also, a treatment for worm infections.

Prostrate, annual, fleshy herb, about 40cm across. Stem glabrous, cylindrical, much branched, greenish-red, swollen at nodes. Leaves fleshy, subsessile,
alternate or subopposite, obovate or spathulate, rounded at apex. Stipules absent. Inflorescence in terminal heads. Flowers yellow, small, sessile, in
clusters on tips of branches, opening on sunny mornings. Calyx 2 sepals, unequal, obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, 0.4-1cm long, united at base, obovate-oblong. Stamens 7-12. Ovary ovoid; style short with 3-6 branches. Capsule 0.5-1.3cm long, obovoid, circumscissile. Seeds many, small, reniform, black, tubercled. Flowering from March-October. (Flowering throughout the year if near water).

found in valleys, farms, roadsides, water canals and sabkhas.
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