Plant Database

Family: Portulacaceae
English Common Name: Green purslane
Arabic Name: بقلة

• Fields, waste ground, roadside verges, cultivated ground and by the sea
• Requires a moist soil and cannot grow in the shade
• South Europe, East Mediterranean region, Asia.

• Easy to digest
• Treatment of Constipation
• Decreases cholesterol up to 20 %
• Beneficial for all the body
• Beneficial for the Heart
• High content of Vitamins
• Nutritious
• Relieves Stomach ache

Edible Parts: Leaves
Modes of Consumption: Salad; raw with laban and raw or dried as a filling for fatayer.

Recipes:
Spinach and Purslane Turnover