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Asparagus acutifolius (Asparagus horridus) -
Wild asparagus
Valenciano: Espàrraguera amarga, Espàrraguera marina
Spanish: Esparragos trigueros
Much branched climbing sub-shrub with whitish woody stems. The leaves are small
and scale like, but in the leaf axils (plave where the leaf leaf attaches to
the stem) are 5-30 short shoots, very similar in appearance, 2-8mm long, stiff
and sharply pointed. Flowers, bell-shaped, 6 lobed soliary or in clumps of up
to 4. Berries red, later black. The young, green shoots appear in the Spring
and are eaten as wild asparagus. These photos are of a rather stunted specimen,
usually the plant is taller and more straggly resembling a minature Christmas
tree in shape. Very common on the edges of pine woods.
Flowers: June - October