Trolley 672

Captured a few mornings ago outside Epsom Station and returned to the M&S food hall.

On the way there, I passed some striking plants in one of the planters in the Kokoro Passage, which, on the basis of this snap, Google Images thinks is rocket, otherwise eruca or arugula, botanically Eruca vesicaria subspecies sativa. See reference 2.

A plant which has distinctive white flowers, which would be helpful if the plant lasts that long, if no-one harvests it, instead of popping over the road to the food hall.

But using the view from above, included above, Google Images then suggests, not at the top of his list, wild arugula, also known as Sylvetta arugula, botanically Diplotaxis tenuifolia. A plant which is put to similar uses as the first, but which is not a particularly close relative, with somewhat different leaves and quite different flowers. See reference 3.

I get the impression that there is a fair amount of taxonomic confusion in this part of the brassica family (Brassicaceae) and I will just have to hope that some flowers do indeed appear.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/04/trolley-671.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_vesicaria.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplotaxis_tenuifolia.

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