fake roses

Once I got a few seeds of confederate rose. I thought it must be kind of rose variety, but it turned out to be a hibiscus. With my further study, I find there are some other plants which have no relations with roses have a rose name. Here are a few more: primrose, moss rose, desert rose, rose of Sharon and lenten rose. I start this thread aiming to arise beginners' attention. Do not be deceived by the rose name. Maybe it is some plant else. And I hope more 'fake roses' will be added here. Picture: my moss rose in bloom

Jianhua, what a beautiful Moss Ross in your picture and also a great idea for beginners. I have 'Tangerine' Moss Rose this year, it is bright orange. I will take a picture of the next bloom and post it here if I remember.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Moss Rose! But I call it Rose Moss most of the time! LOL

It reseeds its self and it SOOOOO easy to have! It will do well just about anywhere! Or you can deadhead it and dry the flowers for seed next year. (Which is great especially if yours has started to sprout and gets killed off by that one last LATE winter frost in the last week of April/first of May!! LOL)

Being a suculant it is a type of dessert plant, but I live int he Panhandle of Texas, it does not get in the 100's much here and it does just fine!

Is that the common name for Portulaca?

Yes, Moss Rose is the common name for Portulaca. Or, Rose Moss as some folks say, LOL!

Yes, not so bad a rose for beginners. And also kids love it best. These days schools of kids visit my yarden to see the portulacas in colorful blooms, and of course they take with them some cuttings when leaving my yarden.

What a great idea for a thread! Here is a close up of one of my "Desert Roses"....these shrubs are huge and flow all over the place, but the flowers are gorgeous....

Or perhaps you prefer pink:

there are even different 'primroses' !! that's why some people get a little serious and learn Latin names. Not to be snobby, just precise.

Oh, Latin names, though hard to learn, I bet, they are a must-have to learn for a gardener.
Your desert roses red and pink are both gorgeous. I gave gotten a few seeds of the rose, and I will wait till spring to have them germinated. But what worries me is the succulent is hard to survive in winter in my region.
Thanks for sharing.
Jianhua

Jianhua, where I am - I certainly don't need to worry about that....and I have 7 of them now! I have heard that they can be overwintered in a covered area - like a garage or shed. I wouldn't worry if they lose all leaves and flowers - that's pretty normal once in a while for these beauties, and you can prune them back hard - they will bounce right back when the weather warms up again. Good Luck!

Portulaca vs. Moss Rose. Looking at the leaves, the moss rose's leaves are different from the portulaca.

The portulaca leaves are wider.

I think this is an interesting topic because just this morning I called a local "superstore" to find out if they still had any 'Wine & Roses Weigela' left. The young man on the phone said, "So it's a type of rose bush?" I had to supress my laughter a little (mostly that the young people who work in these centers don't have any idea what they're selling) and say, "No, that's just the name of this variety of weigela." I hadn't thought about how confusing the names can be! I was also telling my friend the other day that I was planning on putting in a Rose of Sharon shrub at the corner of my house. She also inquired, "So, it's a rose bush?" Not exactly.
As far as the Moss Rose is concerned, I've primarily heard it called Rose Moss around here! And believe it or not, it can even grow (as an annual) in Indiana. Pretty hardy little things. So...thank you Jianhua for posting this thread. It's so exciting to me that I can communicate with people around the globe and hear what's going on on the earth and in the earth! :)

I have portulaca, and have always referred to it (and had it referred to me), as Moss Rose. I guess its a regional idiom. Never knew there was a difference. Hmmm, learn something new every day!

Islandshari, thanks for the growing info of the desert rose. Thanks to the global warming, last winter's temperatures rose by 1 --2 C, and we even did not met real snow. It is a good thing anyhow for the overwintering of plants. I think the desert rose can survive the cold winter if kept indoors in addition to water supply is limited.
Easter-lily, your 'rose' stories are very nice, and the stories tell us it is necessary for us to arise the fake rose questions.
Haydee, the wide-leaf portulaca we have in our region growing wild. For this moss rose or rose moss it is a garden varieties.
Thank you all for sharing.
Jianhua

You all got me curious! So, I checked on the "Rose Moss/ Moss Rose" in DG's plant files, and it is listed as "portulaca grandiflora." Jianhua is right...there are just many different varieties! What a wonderfully diverse planet we live on! :)