Mexicans call it Verdolagas. Sauté the leaves in scrambled eggs. It makes a tasty breakfast burrito 🤌🏻
BigFat180
Purslane. Dad called Italian spinach.
overrunbyhouseplants
You are in for a treat!
Ok-Half7574
If you snap a branch off and the sap is transparent, it’s purslane and edible. If, on the other hand, the sap is white, it’s spurge and is a bit toxic–not edible. They tend to grow near one another, so always check.
Content-Grade-3869
Purselane !
taintmaster900
Probably not intentionally planted yet somehow doesn’t not belong in a vegetable garden 🤔
UnoriginalBanter
*portulaca oleracea*, “purslane”. Clear content in leaf and stem, no milk, small yellow flowers, succulent growth, stems turning red or purplish towards the end of the season. Used in some Mediterranean salads, but not largely found in grocery stores due to very poor tolerance to storage and shipping. Reportedly high in Omega 6 acids, which makes this plant rare amongst plants for vegetarian diets.
Often found as a common garden weed.
Lookalikes include *euphorbia maculata*, “spurge”, which exudes a milky white latex sap. Poisonous, like most plants in the clade, and symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Not a succulent.
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Purslane
r/itsalwayspurslane
Mexicans call it Verdolagas. Sauté the leaves in scrambled eggs. It makes a tasty breakfast burrito 🤌🏻
Purslane. Dad called Italian spinach.
You are in for a treat!
If you snap a branch off and the sap is transparent, it’s purslane and edible. If, on the other hand, the sap is white, it’s spurge and is a bit toxic–not edible. They tend to grow near one another, so always check.
Purselane !
Probably not intentionally planted yet somehow doesn’t not belong in a vegetable garden 🤔
*portulaca oleracea*, “purslane”. Clear content in leaf and stem, no milk, small yellow flowers, succulent growth, stems turning red or purplish towards the end of the season. Used in some Mediterranean salads, but not largely found in grocery stores due to very poor tolerance to storage and shipping. Reportedly high in Omega 6 acids, which makes this plant rare amongst plants for vegetarian diets.
Often found as a common garden weed.
Lookalikes include *euphorbia maculata*, “spurge”, which exudes a milky white latex sap. Poisonous, like most plants in the clade, and symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Not a succulent.