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jonathan creason:

--- Quote from: Tsalagi on June 15, 2010, 03:02:36 am ---You can also head to your local nursery/garden center and look to see if they have purslane. It also goes by the name Portulaca. That way, you can see it up close. But, no, purslane does not exude a white fluid. Many plants that exude white fluids tend to be toxic or, at the least, very violent combo emetic-laxatives that give everything in your stomach and bowels the "two exits, no waiting" treatment. Plants in the Euphorbia family exude a highly poisonous white sap, for example.

But, here in Northern Arizona, we don't see our wild purslane until around July or August. So we got some Portulaca from the nursery and planted it in our yard. Hopefully, it'll take over.

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That's probably the best idea.  I was at Lowe's this morning and didn't think to go look.

jamie:
Many health food and natural food stores will carry the seed in their stores. I'll be online tonite and get a pic up. Its quite possible what you have near the kids play area is purslane. It loves to grow in open places. Can you post a pic of it?

jonathan creason:
I'll try to get a pic this evening, as long as the thunderstorms cooperate.

JW_Halverson:
Didja ever figger out if you had the real purslane?

I have allowed it to go wild in my garden this year and have been hard pressed to eat it fast enough.  I've fed it to plenty of folks in salads and no one has disliked it yet!  I added about 10% purslane to a coleslaw and it didn't do much.  I bumped it to 25% and it tastes pretty good.  Will go 50/50 next. 

mullet:
 Here you go

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