Rocket seeds from China are these 'arugula' rocket or a bit dodgy? bought on Amazon

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  All you can tell from looking at those seeds is that they are likely a brassica of some kind.  Impossible to say more until you grow them.  For all you know, they could be rapeseed.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• trinderjackie Posts: 4

  May 2020

  any comments?

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  May 2020

  See above.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• trinderjackie Posts: 4

  May 2020

  thanks, the ones I've seen online are mostly lighter in colour
  
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2020

  If it wasn't from a legitimate outlet, like a specialist veg grower, and was just from a random person, it could be anything. There are all sorts of bogus seeds imported from China unfortunately. 
  As @BobTheGardener says - the only way to find out is to sow them.

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• trinderjackie Posts: 4

  May 2020

  I'll sow them in little pots..... Just to see... 

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