What a color! It reminds me of the color of the so-called Austrian copper rose, Rosa 'Foetida Bicolor'.
And what are these large-flowered, broad-leaved portulacas? To what species are they assigned? I'm not sure. The several which I have tried have been good garden plants, although they don't seem to bloom every day. I'm going to try to keep this one going throughout the winter.
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Although frequently (mis) identified as Portulaca oleracea, the broad-leafed cultivated species is actually P. umbraticola. I addressed this in one of my blog posts about P. oleracea (common purslane) a while back: http://dctropics.blogspot.com/2014/07/eat-your-weeds.html
Thanks, John. While typing up that post, I Googled portulaca images to see what was up with these plants. And I found some images where the text assigned them to Portulaca umbraticola, which was a new name to me. One such site called them Australian portulacas! But since P. umbraticola is native to Colombia, I knew something was off there.
Thanks for helping to clarify this.
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