Berries and 'leaves'. Photographer SriMesh, Saskatchewan, Canada

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, east of Wisemans Ferry, NSW

Flower. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, east of Wisemans Ferry, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray fagg, east of Wisemans Ferry, NSW

Painting. Illustration in: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany

Common Name

Asparagus, Edible Asparagus

Family

Asparagaceae

Notes

Introduced perennial forb to 1.5m tall, stems arising annually from the rootstock.  'Leaves' in clusters of 3-7, 1-2.5cm long, 0.5-1mm wide, linear, hairless.  Male and female flowers on different plants.  Flowers pale green to greenish white, tubular, with 6 lobes, 1-2 in at the bases of the 'leaves'.  Berries red.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 181-182

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asparagus~officinalis