carmine vs purslane

carmine

• A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment. 

• A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives. 

• carmine 

• Of the purplish red colour shade carmine. 

purslane

• pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica) 

• Halimione portulacoides 

• moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora) 

• shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum) 

• Honckenya peploides 

• purslane tree (Portulacaria afra) 

• winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) 

• the widely-grown edible plant common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea) 

• Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.