Sentence examples for eruca from inspiring English sources

He stepped back to photograph the rolling yellow glow of barrel cactus thorns, zeroed in on the writhing stems of Baja's Stenocereus eruca resembling a pit of snakes, and went nose to nose with the turquoise florets of the intricately patterned kalanchoe leaves, familiar to us in tiny plastic pots in the supermarket but here growing knee-high.

Arugula (subspecies Eruca vesicaria sativa), also called roquette, salad rocket, garden rocket, or rugula, annual herb of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), grown for its pungent edible leaves.

Annual salad rocket (Eruca sativa) has a post-harvest dormant period of around six weeks, which means the seed will not germinate during this time.

And I wish he'd considered the gastronomic puzzle of why Americans use the completely obscure Italian dialect word arugula for rocket (Eruca vesicaria), which has a good English name and has probably grown in Britain since Roman times.

I logged on (www.underwoodgardens.com) to order a catalog and idly clicked on "Curiosities," which led me directly to the intense peppery flavor of wild Italian arugula (Eruca selvatica) and the "buttery sweet spinach taste of Bietina," an Italian cut-and-come-again green that can be grown from spring through fall.

I ordered a ton of arugula from Cook's Garden, both the common variety, Eruca sativa, and a smaller, wilder form from Italy called Selvatica, which has finely cut leaves and is more heat-tolerant.

True arugula is Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa, and although it's the bigger mouthful to say, it's the smaller one to eat.