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  • COMMON NAME: Lucerne, Rocket.
  • ARABIC: جرجير
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eruca sativa.
  • SYNONYMS: Eruca vesicaria (L.) Cav.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. It considered to be an aphrodisiac in the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Egypt.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/eruca_vesicaria.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Edible plant, Salad green, contains Vitamin C and was known to heal scorbut. Seeds yield oil. Honey nectar plants. Leaves used to heal scurvy.
Annual, erect herb, hispid to glabrescent above, up to 50 cm high. Stems erect, rigid, many branched. Lower leaves up to 50 cm long, petiolate, pinnatifid with 2-5 of lateral lobes. Inflorescences of lax terminal racemes, elongated in fruit. Flowers 1.5-2 cm long. Sepals about 1 cm long, subglabrous. Petals creamy or yellowish, with greenish to violet veins. Fruiting pedicels 2-6 mm long, appressed to the stem. Siliqua 1.5-2.5 cm long, with flat beak; valves 1-nerved, glabrous or with hispid hairs. Flowering from January-March.
Farms, waste places and roadsides.
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