Asparagus nelsii Schinz

Species

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Characteristics

A herb or small spreading shrub. It keeps growing from year to year but loses its leaves. The stems are spiny. It grows 1 m high. The flattened leaf like stems are narrow and in groups or 4-9. They are greyish-green and 25 mm long. The flowers are white or pale green. The fruit is a one-seeded red berry.
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Erect, spiny shrub, up to 1 m high. Stems whitish grey, smooth; nodes many-budded, swollen, below with a sharp recurved spine 5-10 mm long. Cladodes ± 8 a fascicle, ± 10-25 mm long, greyish green. Flowers white or pale cream.
Ovary ellipsoid with ±8 ovules per locule. Berry one-seeded, red.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on soil from limestone material. It grows in well-drained sandy or stony soils. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food material medicinal social use
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Asparagus nelsii world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:531220-1
WFO ID wfo-0000633905
COL ID HBHV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Asparagus nelsii Protasparagus nelsii