"animaux" wrote in message
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| On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:17:32 GMT, "Texensis"

| wrote:
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| Moss roses/portulaca (the ones with the little ferny foliage) and
the
| cultivated, hanging-basket purslanes are related. H-E-B sold a lot
of
| those hanging baskets for a couple of summers a few summers ago and
| then I haven't seen them since. I suspect that seeds may produce
| plants that revert to the wilder version.
|
| this is what purslane looks like:
|
| http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/porol.htm

The bottom pic is an especially good one for the weed, though it's not
great for scale.