Common name:
Pigweed, Purslane, Munyeroo

Family name:
Portulacaceae

Botanical name:
Portulaca oleracea

Flowering/fruiting season:
Summer

Location:
In a variety of habitats

Use:

• Food
• Leaves were eaten raw and seeds ground and baked (Flood, 1980:95)

Notes:

• 'An important food in arid areas.'
• Recorded use in other regions of NSW, SA, NT, QLD (Gott, 1995)
• Many seeds were easily collected : Baron von Mueller reported that 'a native can gather many pounds weight of the seeds in a day' (Cribb & Cribb, 1987:142)

Language names:

Horticulture :
Garden weed in the ACT; may not be native (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:161)

Similar species:
Calandrinia balonensis Parakeelya

Use code:
LEA, SEED, ROOT

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