orpine

English

Wikispecies

From Old French orpin, Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”)..

orpine (plural orpines)

Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 207:
  Common Orpine rises up with diverse round, brittle stalks, thick set with fat and fleshy leaves without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges; of a pale green colour.
A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, sometimes approaching red.

Hylotelephium telephium

Perino, Pinero, norepi, opiner, pernio, pioner, porine, pornie, rip one, rope in