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the salad green that sprouts on damp paper towels in days, no soil required
means A fast-growing, peppery-tasting leafy plant of the mustard family, eaten young in salads and garnishes.
from From Old English cresse or cærse, the same word that gives us watercress; it has cousins across the Germanic languages — German Kresse, Dutch kers — and the whole cluster is thought to trace back to a root meaning 'to creep' or 'to grow,' fitting for a green that seems to spring up overnight.
- speed demon
- Sprouts and edible within a week
- space crop
- Grown by astronauts aboard the ISS
- peppery kick
- Tastes hot from mustard oil compounds
- river roots
- Watercress thrives in cold running streams
- ancient fuel
- Persians fed it to soldiers for strength
for instance
watercress — aquatic plant grown in uk streams since medieval times, highest in vitamin k
garden cress — fast-growing lepidium sativum, ready to eat in 2 weeks, popular in middle east
land cress — barbarea verna, used as watercress substitute in drier climates