Weed Herbarium

Nunia

Common Name: Common purslane
Scientific Name: Portulaca oleracea L.
Family Name: Portulacaceae
Type: Broad Leaf

Identification Notes

EPPO Code

POROL

Life Cycle

Annual

Morphology

Stem: Succulent, much branched, nodal appendages scarious minute or absent. Leaves: Simple, thick, fleshy, cuneate-oblong, petiole short. Inflorescence: A few flowered terminal head, flower sessile, yellow in color. Fruit: A Capsule. Seed: Black

Growing season

Rabi-Kharif

Germination period

January - December

Flowering period

January - December

Propagation

By Seed

Habitat

Found in Aus rice, jute, mustard and in most of the rabi crops. Also found in the homesteads, road-sides, levee of crop fields and fallow lands.

Weed potential

Control measure

Recommended herbicide

Distribution

Purslane has an extensive distribution, assumed to be mostly anthropogenic (or hemerochoric), extending from North Africa and Southern Europe through the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to Malesia and Australasia.

Department of Agronomy

Bangladesh Agricultural University