Asparagus Officinalis Flower
1 to 3 flowers arise from the leaf axils in the upper part of the plant.
Asparagus Officinalis Flower. Producing tender spears early in spring this veggie makes for delicious seasonal meals and a sensational start to the years growing season. Female plants may self-seed abundantly. A delicate vinelike varietywrongly called smi-lax by floristsis grown in greenhouses.
4 crown with spears. Asparagus is a perennial vegetable whose edible shoots are harvested in spring. Best known is the garden asparagus Asparagus officinalis cultivated as a vegetable for its succulent spring stalks.
Asparagus or garden asparagus folk name sparrow grass scientific name Asparagus officinalis is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus. In my book asparagus Asparagus officinalis is king of the edible perennial garden. Unlike some garden vegetables such as peas which are self-pollinating asparagus is dioecious meaning some plants are male and some are female.
Asparagus officinalis is a PERENNIAL growing to 15 m 5ft by 08 m 2ft 7in. The flowers grow out of the axil point where a branch or leaf is attached to the main stem. Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that produces edible shoots or spears which may be harvested in April-May.
Asparagus plants have pretty ferny foliage and as such are equally at home in the herbaceous border as they are in the vegetable patch. Spring summer fall winter. Asparagus officinalis is a rare delicacy yielding delicious and uniquely flavoured spears for a short time each spring.
5 feet tall 3 feet wide. The perianth parts are separate. At the base of the plant the primary stem is relatively stout up to1 across and angular-terete.
It is hardy to zone UK 4 and is not frost tender. It was once classified in the lily family like the related Allium species onions and garlic. You can change the display of the base map and layers by clicking on the layer control box in the upper right-hand corner.
150 to 200 feet. Perianth regular actinomorphic whitishgreenish. Erect perennial herb thick succulent and unbranched when young.
Flowers axillary drooping 6-parted bell-shaped yellow-green. It grows best. Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.
Asparagus Family Asparagaceae Growing form. Lily family Liliaceae DescriptionThis herbaceous perennial plant is 2½7 tall at maturity branchingoccasionally. Individual flowers are about ¼ inch long bell-shaped with 6 pale yellow to greenish tepals petals 6 orange-tipped stamens on a slender stalk up to an inch long.
Geographic subdivisions for Asparagus officinalis subsp. Rootstock creeping thick tuberously swollen short-jointed. Male plants produce better crop yields because they do not flower or fruit.
The plants are started from seeds and transplanted to a permanent bed in the spring of the second year. Its surprisingly easy to grow thriving in well-drained soil in full sun. Several African species are grown as ornamental plants.
The perianth parts are fused to form a tube cup or bell shape. With its feathery fronds and edible shoots asparagus Asparagus officinalis works equally well as an ornamental and useful garden plant. 300 to 400 feet.
60150 cm 2460 in. Acidic to neutral 60 to 70 Bloom Time. Asparagus Asparagus officinalis greenish yellow Long appreciated for enhancing male virility but really what is does is empowers both genders to take positive action without fear of needing to be on guard.
How to Plant Flowers Asparagus Together. Back to Previous Page. Asparagus is a hardy perennial of the lily family with tuberous roots.
Asparagus genus Asparagus genus of the family Asparagaceae with up to 300 species native from Siberia to southern Africa. Fruit a bright red berry. It has rhizomatous roots.
Leaves alternate scale-like and often spiny terminal branchlets very narrow and needle-like clustered. The young stems of asparagus plants are used as food. Males do not have to expend energy in producing flowers and fruit and typically produce better crop yields.
It is in flower in August and the seeds ripen from September to October. They are ready for cutting after they have grown two years in the permanent bed. They continue to produce for 20 years or more.
Stem many-branched 26 needle-like shoots in whorls. They are light yellow topurple deltate in shape and scale-like in appearance. Small alternate leavesare appressed against this stem.
The foliage is garden worthy because of its tall size and masses of feathery delicate texture. Reproduced from the series Plant Resources of South-East Asia Vols 1-20 1989-2000 by kind permission of the PROSEA Foundation Bogor Indonesia. Asparagus officinalis Mary Washington.
