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Wild wild rocket
In article , Max Wright
writes According to the Organic Gardening Catalogue, their wild rocket is Diplotaxis tenuifolia, not Sisymbrium officinale (but it's also known as Sisymbrium tenuifolium, according to www.scs.leeds.ac.uk - just Google "diplotaxis"). It's a perennial and "doubtfully native" in Britain, rated a noxious/invasive weed in various parts of Australia. I've had it in my garden for about 3 years. There's also another wild rocket, Diplotaxis erucoides; this one is an annual and (according to the same source) a serious weed in southern Europe. I believe the normal cultivated annual or "salad" rockets are Erucas - allegedly introduced to Britain by the Romans. So perhaps the annual wild rocket's name means "not actually a rocket but rather like one". I suspect it's just to sound trendy, like 'wild mushrooms' or 'wild rice' -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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