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Noun: spiny talinum
  1. Low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States
    - Talinum spinescens
Noun: Talinum
  1. Genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
    - genus Talinum
Noun: pigmy talinum
  1. Low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States
    - Talinum brevifolium

Type of: caryophylloid dicot genus, flame flower, flameflower, flame-flower, Talinum aurantiacum

Part of: family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, purslane family

Encyclopedia: Talinum

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