This is an annual herb with very bushy stalk about 10/30cm in lenght, with thick, succulent leaves which can blush with deep red. The leaves are green, meaty, oval and smooth and about 3cm long. This avreitry grows like a weed. The meaty leaves have a slightly peppery lemon flavour and can be eaten in salads or used like spinach. To be sown from Aril to July and harvest from April to October. Horticultural name: Purtulaca oleracea L.