Portulaca grandiflora

mani nair

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17 Oct 2011, 3:44:56 am17/10/11

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Dear friends,

Seen at a Plants exhibition. Commonly called "Office Time"

Place : Byculla, Mumbai
Date : 19.02.11
Habitat : Cultivated

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Mani Nair

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Neha Singh

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17 Oct 2011, 5:12:11 am17/10/11

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Beautiful !
Mani Sir, we call it 9 O' Clock.

mani nair

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17 Oct 2011, 5:30:21 am17/10/11

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Thanks Neha ji. Yes it is also called 9 O'Clock flower as the flower buds opens during that time.

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Mani Nair

Madhuri Raut

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17 Oct 2011, 5:38:26 am17/10/11

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lovely colors Mani ji I have yet to see a yellow one in real

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Bhagyashri

mani nair

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17 Oct 2011, 6:09:34 am17/10/11

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Thanks Bhagyashri ji for the appreciation.
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Mani Nair

Gurcharan Singh

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17 Oct 2011, 7:28:25 am17/10/11

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Mani ji

It would be interesting to know the source of your information. Portulaca grandiflora is generally known as eleven-o'clock flower as per GRIN information. In Vietnam, it is called "Hoa mười giờ" meaning "Ten o'clock flower", because the flower is usually in full bloom at 10 o'clock in the morning (as per Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_grandiflora. Most species of Portulaca generally flower and stay open till noon, remain closed before and after that or on a cloudy day.

Once I remember having disagreement on the colour of flower colour, my colleague saying it has pink flowers whereas I knew it with yellow flowers. Next morning we plucked the plants at 8.30 a m when all were in buds pink in colour, brought them to College, and put it in beaker with water on a window with sunlight and asked the lab assistant to report when it comes to flower. He came running to me to me after some time to report it has just flowered. I saw my watch, it was 11 a m, and I saw the flowers they were all yellow......It was Portalaca quadrifida.

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SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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Gurcharan Singh

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17 Oct 2011, 7:30:20 am17/10/11

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And yes, I forgot to mention, new cultivars of Portulaca grandiflora have been developed that remain open for most of the day.

--
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

mani nair

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17 Oct 2011, 7:39:57 am17/10/11

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Thanks Gurcharan ji for this interesting information that in various places the timing is different for its opening. I like this plant very much as the flowers are very beautiful and the cultivation of it is also very easy if it gets lots of sunlight. It can be grown in a hanging basket also.

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Mani.

Ushadi micromini

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18 Oct 2011, 7:49:22 am18/10/11

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we called it 4 o'clock flower... that's when they went to sleep...
promptly...

we has a very long conversation about potrulaca grandiflora
before:....
its at this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/c4d76860179ddaf9/d29642ada179dd6c?lnk=gst&q=portulaca+usha#d29642ada179dd6c

Usha di

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mani nair

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18 Oct 2011, 8:29:18 am18/10/11

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Usha ji, in our area 4'0 clock flower is Mirabilis jalapa. See how the name changes in different places !!

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Mani.

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