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Scientific Name : Asparagus officinalis
Common Name : Asparagus
Height : 1.5 m
Description : This plant is well known in its young stages as a tasty vegetable. The plant emerges each year from the rootstock. It grows as a multiple branching stem, with numerous clusters of small Linear Cladodes, up to 30mm long, in the Axils of the much-reduced, true leaves. The plants are Dioecious. Flowers are whitish, with Tepals 8mm long, hanging downwards on 10mm Pedicels. Male flowers have 6 Stamens, shorter than the perianth and a rudimentary Ovary. Female flowers have rudimentary Stamens and an Ovary, which develops into a red berry 10mm diameter.
Habitat : Usually in damp places, especially near watercourses.
Distribution : A European species frequently cultivated. Escapes from cultivation occur in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Knwown from scattered locations across Victoria, especially in the North-West, along the Murray. A colony in the Park, near Brewsters Road has almost been eliminated. A plant was also found along the pipe-line track beside Billys Creek.
Flowering Season : November December January February
Family : Liliaceae
This is an introduced species  
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Asparagus flowering stem, near Brewsters Road