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TitleShoreline Sea Purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Rating3.5
VettedTrusted
Description
Happily blooming along the high tide line on a little sandy Intracoastal Waterway beach. Sea purslane is reportedly edible and nutritious, but a bit salty tasting. I prefer to admire it's beauty and appreciate it's role as a beach stabilizer. Sea purslane is pantropical in distribution and extremely salt tolerant. It propagates mainly via vegetative fragments and these floating fragments have allowed it to spread around the world's beaches.
Original URLhttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2883/9030650087_122371c373_o.jpg
photographerBob Peterson
providerFlickr: EOL Images
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith