EPPO Global Database

Portulaca grandiflora(PORGR)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-03-02

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: PORGR
  • Preferred name: Portulaca grandiflora
  • Authority: Hooker

Notes

South America (from Bolivia and eastern Brazil to southern cone). Widely cultivated as an ornamental in numerous cultivars, notably in Japan. Introduced in a few European countries, Caucasus, Central Asia (Uzbekistan), Western Asia (Pakistan), India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indochina (Vietnam), Malesia (Java),  Guinée to Tchad and Zaïre, Tanzania, northern South Africa, Canada (Ontario), USA (throughout except northwest), Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America (Ecuador, Peru)


Common names
Name Language
Japanese rose English
moss rose English
moss-rose purslane English
rose moss English
Röschenportulak German
Zierportulak German
pourpier à grandes fleurs French
pourpier fleuri French
onze horas Spanish
porcellana grandiflora Italian
beldroega-de-flores-grandes Portuguese
onze-horas Portuguese
hideri-sô Japanese
matsuba-botan Japanese
tsumekiri-sô Japanese
ツメキリソウ Japanese
ヒデソウ Japanese
マツバボタン Japanese
портулак крупноцветковый Russian
kedi tırnağı Turkish
portulaka wielkokwiatowa Polish
nagyvirágú porcsin Hungarian
burdullak Albanian
калдъръмче Bulgarian
portulak  Croatian
šrucha velkokvětá Czech
채송화 Korean
chae song hwa Korean
portulaka veľkokvetá Slovak
портулак великоквітковий Ukrainian