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Common name: Rocket Salad, Arugula • Hindi: Tara Mira • Malayalam: Rucola • Bengali: Suffedshorshi • Sanskrit: Sarishapa
Botanical name: Eruca sativa Family: Brassicaceae (Cauliflower family)
Rocket Salad is an annual salad plant that has leaves similar in taste and
appearance to its relative, the radish (Raphanus sativus). The leaves are 3-7
in long and deeply lobed, like those of dandelions. Arugula is best used as a
salad green when it's young, just 1 ft or so tall. It will eventually produce
stems 2-3 ft in height, topped with white cross shaped flowers that are very
similar to those of radish. Several cultivars have been bred.
| Photographed in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
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