{"id":14451,"date":"2020-04-29T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2021-11-25T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T16:45:54","slug":"identify-sea-purslane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2020\/04\/29\/identify-sea-purslane\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify Sea Purslane"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sea Purslane (Halimione portulacoides )<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sea-Purslane-young-leaves-carpeted-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>How to Identify Sea Purslane<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Edible<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Botanical Name<\/strong><br \/>Halimione portulacoides<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Could be confused with<br \/><\/strong>Habitat and look make this plant near impossible to confuse with anything.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong><br \/>Range and Distribution<br \/><\/strong>Temperate regions of Europe including the UK, Asia and Northern Africa<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>Habitat<br \/><\/strong>Coastal areas, specifically salt marshes and sandy areas<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Physical Characteristics<br \/><\/strong>Sea purslane is a bushy perennial that sprawls along each other and the ground, growing to 75cm in length.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It\u2019s stalks a fairly woody, grey brown, producing succulent 2-4cm long oval shaped leaves, growing opposite on another up the stem. These are light green with a slight grey\/silver tinge due to lots of very tiny hairs all over them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At the end of the stem it produces a cluster of minute yellow flowers which turn in to pale yellow seeds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Edible Use<br \/><\/strong>Leaves: The leaves provide a succulent crunch of delightful mineral packed saltiness, use in salads, and raw on top of foods<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Flowers and Seeds: The flowers and seeds give an even more exciting pop of flavor, use them to adorn and garnish foods or make them in to a pesto.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Tips and Observations<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s best to collect this plant on your hands and knees with a pair of scissors, ideally look for the growth that hasn\u2019t yet developed tough woody stems as it will be easier to cook with later. Make sure you keep one eye on the tide.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Purslane (Halimione portulacoides ) How to Identify Sea Purslane Edible Botanical NameHalimione portulacoides Could be confused withHabitat and look make this plant near impossible to confuse with anything. Range and DistributionTemperate regions of Europe including the UK, Asia and Northern Africa HabitatCoastal areas, specifically salt marshes and sandy areas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,101],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}