Asparagus burchellii Baker

Perennials with stems and branches persistent, spreading and zigzagging horizontally, up to 1.5 m or more long, or straight, erect. Rhizome compact, woody; roots somewhat swollen above, cylindrical, long, ±5 mm in diameter, hard. Lateral branches curving outwards to recurved, bearing recurved spines ±5 mm long at regular intervals; on both sides of spines bracteate clusters of buds are produced, many of these developing into annual, globose, green, clustered branchlets, ±10-20 mm long; these in turn bearing small cladodes ±1-3 mm long in fascicles of ±(1)2 or 3 and 1-3 apical flowers. Flowers shortly pedicelled (±2 mm long) with the disc placed in lower half. Perianth with tepals ±2 mm long. Stamens with filaments broadened below, anthers yellow. Ovary globose with 4 ovules in each locule; style and stigmas short. Berry ±3 mm in diameter, green. Flowering in autumn.

It is a subtropical plant.