... The mature fruit is dry, hard, and dark brown; the shape is obconical (cone-shaped with a pointed end) and three-angled ...

... On Hawai'i Island, Portulaca sclerocarpa grows on weathered Mauna Kea soils, cinder cones, and young lava in montane dry shrubland ...

... It grows on the slopes of cinder cones and in subalpine forest from 750 to 2,200 m (2,461 to 7,218 ft) [Wagner et al. 1990] ...

... species grows in dry to occasionally mesic forests from 146 to 1,948 m (479 to 6,391 ft) on a'a lava substrate, including cinder cones, along with ...

... It grows on the slopes of cinder cones and in subalpine forest from 750 to 2,200 m (2,461 to 7,218 ft) [Wagner et al. 1990] ...