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Botanical Family · Asparagales

Asparagaceae

Asparagus family

12 speciesOrder Asparagales8+ well-known plants

Monocot herbs, often with underground storage organs. Includes asparagus, agave, yucca, and spider plant.

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Representative ASPARAGACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Asparagaceae
Key pattern

Alternate or whorled leaves, sometimes reduced to scales with flattened stem-branches (cladodes) taking over photosynthesis, on herbs with underground storage organs; regular six-parted flowers ripen into a berry or capsule.

Several genera store water and reserve carbohydrates in swollen underground rhizomes or bulbs, letting them survive long dry seasons — the same strategy exploited when growing garden asparagus spears.

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Which Asparagaceae species is this?

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Leaf ShapeWhat shape are the leaves?
Broad strap-shaped
Elliptic
Linear
Narrow, grass-like
Needle-like, fern-like fine cladodes
Rigid, spear-shaped

How to recognise the Asparagaceae family

  • 01

    Leaf arrangement: alternate/whorled

  • 02

    Leaf type: simple/scale-like

  • 03

    Growth forms: herb/climber

  • 04

    Inflorescence: raceme/panicle

  • 05

    Fruit: berry/capsule

Notable members

Sprenger's AsparagusAsparagus densiflorusCommon Asparagus FernAsparagus setaceusCast-Iron PlantAspidistra elatiorElephant's-FootBeaucarnea recurvataSpider PlantChlorophytum comosumPongol SwordChlorophytum laxumTiCordyline fruticosaAfrican SpearDracaena angolensis

All 12 species in ASPARAGACEAE

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