Is there anything ungrammatical about this sentence, beyond...

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "I wouldn't put it this way"?
> 
> Purslane started its cultivation in India and Persia.

This does seem to suggest fairly strongly that this was purslane's idea.  Could be the writer started with something perfectly normal like  "Purslane began being cultivated…" or "Purslane was first cultivated…", only to get a comment from the grammar check tsk-tsking over the use of the passive.

LH

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