Eruca

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Eruca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Eruca (origin of name in doubt; probably from the Latin to burn, in allusion to the hot seeds). Cruciferae. Perhaps ten or a dozen herbs of Eu. and W. Asia, annual or biennial. Allied to Brassica: differs in the shorter, more turgid silique, with keeled valves; style elongated; seeds in 2 rows in each cell. The Lvs. are pinnately lobed or dentate, and the fls. rather large, yellow id purplish. E. sativa, Mill., Roquette, Tira or Rocket-salad, is the only species cult, in this country. It is a weedy annual, resembling a mustard, 1-2 ft. high, with lyrate-pinnatifid Lvs. and creamy yellow or whitish fls. in a raceme (which elongates in fr.). It is sparingly run wild in Canada, U. S., and Mex. See Roquette. L. H. B. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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