talinum aurantiacum

1. Plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil;
   Southwestern United States;
   Indians once cooked the fleshy roots (synset 111883304)
   is a type of: wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant
   subtypes:

   • narrow-leaved flame flower, talinum augustissimum - similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States
   • pigmy talinum, talinum brevifolium - low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
   • rock pink, talinum calycinum - pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
   • jewels-of-opar, talinum paniculatum - erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
   • spiny talinum, talinum spinescens - low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
   belongs to: genus talinum, talinum - genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
   same as: flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower

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