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Asparagus crispus, Lam. (A. decumbens, Jacq., and Hort.). Roots tuberous, short, densely clustered about crown: sts. herbaceous, green, weak, climbing or drooping, 3-6 ft., much branched: branches deflexed, and zigzag: If.-scale developed below into a weak spur: cladodes 3, 3-angled, reflexed, about ¼-⅜ in. long: fls. on slender drooping pedicels, axillary, solitary, or in pairs, white, sweet-scented, resembling the fls. of A. asparagoides: berry white or pink, ½ in., several-seeded, seeds small, black. S. Afr. A.F. 16:825.—Easily grown from seed or prop, by division; a beautiful plant for hanging- baskets. This species is often sold under the name of A. scandens deflexus, Baker, which has flat cladodes and 1-3-seeded, red berries.
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Asparagus crispus, Lam. (A. decumbens, Jacq., and Hort.). Roots tuberous, short, densely clustered about crown: sts. herbaceous, green, weak, climbing or drooping, 3-6 ft., much branched: branches deflexed, and zigzag: If.-scale developed below into a weak spur: cladodes 3, 3-angled, reflexed, about ¼-⅜ in. long: fls. on slender drooping pedicels, axillary, solitary, or in pairs, white, sweet-scented, resembling the fls. of A. asparagoides: berry white or pink, ½ in., several-seeded, seeds small, black. S. Afr.—Easily grown from seed or prop, by division; a beautiful plant for hanging- baskets. This species is often sold under the name of A. scandens deflexus, Baker, which has flat cladodes and 1-3-seeded, red berries.
 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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Asparagus crispus, Lam. (A. decumbens, Jacq., and Hort.). Roots tuberous, short, densely clustered about crown: sts. herbaceous, green, weak, climbing or drooping, 3-6 ft., much branched: branches deflexed, and zigzag: If.-scale developed below into a weak spur: cladodes 3, 3-angled, reflexed, about ¼-⅜ in. long: fls. on slender drooping pedicels, axillary, solitary, or in pairs, white, sweet-scented, resembling the fls. of A. asparagoides: berry white or pink, ½ in., several-seeded, seeds small, black. S. Afr.—Easily grown from seed or prop, by division; a beautiful plant for hanging- baskets. This species is often sold under the name of A. scandens deflexus, Baker, which has flat cladodes and 1-3-seeded, red berries.


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