Portulaca oleracea L.
Purslane / Lingiruh/Langiruh (Bru.); Nagiro/Sesigan (Tut.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Annual or perennial creeping herb that can grow up to 30 cm high. Leaves are alternately arranged, succulent, sessile and glabrous. Leaf blade is elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, rounded at apex, cuneate or rounded at base with entire margin. Stems are succulent, erect, smooth, branched and often pinkish or reddish. Flowers are bright yellow. Inflorescence a solitary arising at leaf axils. Fruit an ovoid capsule. Seeds are tiny, numerous and black.
Leaves are locally made into a decoction and taken orally as a remedy for women after childbirth.
It prefers moist fertile soil under full sunlight to partial shade. It thrives in disturbed lowland areas, around villages and gardens.
Seeds and root division.
Native to Southeast
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