This flower is called Rose Moss. Before we know its name, we called it “small sunflower” (which is not exactly correct) because of it behaviour of only show its beautiful flowers when the sun light is strong enough. The scientific name of Rose Moss is Portulaca xxx. Portulaca is its Type Genus name, where as xxx are different species. There are 40 - 100 species found.

I guess that Portulaca is under Succulent categories, but I have doubted because it is extremely soft. It prefers full sun and require little water. If too much water was given, its root can become rotten easily.

The size of the flower can be as small as 1.5 cm in diameter, therefore unless you look at it very close (like the first picture above), otherwise it look better in a big bush.

We had a few other types of rose moss in different colours, red, pink, white… … but it can be easily killed by the rain, may be I need to take some time to change the soil.

I wish I can have a piece of land where I can plant different colours of rose moss, I can imagine… it will be a beautiful garden.