Rocula Organic “Eruca sativa” Plant

Rocula Organic “Eruca sativa” Plant

Rocula “Eruca sativa” is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor.

Other common names include garden rocket (in Britain, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand), and eruca.

It is also called “ruchetta”, “rucola”, “rucoli”, “rugula”, “colewort”, and “roquette”. Eruca sativa, which is widely popular as a salad vegetable, is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal in the west to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Turkey in the east.