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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce, Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isles Rep. 3: 413 (1914)
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) Druce
L.
Druce
1914
413
ICN
species
Asparagus asparagoides

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asparagoides

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

Summer-green scrambling or twining perennial; roots tuberous. Stems to 3 m long, tortuous, green, or slightly woody and brownish, branches spreading, angled, scabrid on angles. Scale-leaves scarious, entire, basal spur absent. Cladodes solitary at each node, 1-3.5 cm × 4-15 mm, flattened, broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute, with c. 7 prominent veins usually spreading horizontally. Flowers 1-2, axillary, 5-6 mm long, greenish-white, pedicels c. 5-8 mm long. Berry globose, 6-10 mm diam., red. Seeds 2-8, c. 2 mm diam., black.

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce

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Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Asparagus asparagoides (L.) Druce
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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127990a4-e755-4aca-9297-a77cb07f61b0
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
31 December 2023
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