Arugula is a very famous herb that is also well known as Rocolla, Rocola, Rucola, Eruca, Eruca Sativa, Rocket, Roquette. It’s cultivated in many countries worldwide. The leaf of arugula has a Christmas tree form and is very thin but in Egypt, it grows differently, and the leaves are very wide. The form of the leaves is not the only difference.
Many companies try to grow wide-leaf arugula using Egyptian seeds in neighboring countries like Israel and Syria. It was brought to the United States and Mexico, but it refuses to grow. At the same time, there are two kinds of wide-leaf arugula seeds in Egypt: from the northern mud farms and from the southern desert farms. For oil extraction, Egyptian companies are using northern seeds as they are rich in oil, but BioNatal LLC uses desert seeds.