Portulaca Grandiflora

The Portulaka plant is a dicoty flower plant. This portulaka plant we often encounter along the way, the yard and the fields.This plant is a close relative of purslane plants. This portulaka plant has the characteristics of the flowers are red with a pointed leaf. The function and usefulness of portulaka plants for some people is used as an ornamental plant.

Plant portulaka is a seasonal terma plant with wet trunk. This portulaka plant grows creeping or lying on the ground but also the cage grows upward with the length of the plant 15-30 cm. This portulaka plant branching from the base of the stem. In the trunk stems smooth hair structure. The portulaka plant stems are red or green. Single-leafed portulaka plant with scattered location, leaves are not stemmed, at the end of the leaf stalk lined up, goto the base of the rootstock more rarely. The leaves of this portulaka plant are thickly fleshy and watery. Leaf shape of portulaka plant is tapered like a cylindrical round needle with a length of 1 to 3.5 cm of green color.

Portulaka plant flowers flocked 2-8 at the end of the stem. Flower plant portulaka bloom at 8 am and then wilt late afternoon with red color. The fruit of the portulaka plant is oval with a hairy surface with a size of 5-8 mm. The seeds of the portulaka plants are round and numerous in size with small seed size is light brown. The plant of portulak multiply by way of stem cuttings and seeds. Plant portulaka habitat in the lowlands to an altitude of 1400 m above sea level. Portulaka plants live in sunny areas filled with moderate rain intensity.

Portulaka plants contain portulals. Portulaka stems and flowers contain betacyanin, beranin, and betanidin.All parts of the plant portulaka used in herbal medicine.