Common names: fameflower, Jewels-of-Opar, pink baby's-breath
IPNI:
1007146-2
Classification note
Described in 1760 under basionym Portulaca paniculata by Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817). It was then recombined into the genus Talinum in 1791 by Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791). It is currently classified in the family Talinaceae, though previously it was in the family of the purslane or Portulacaceae.