Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Asparagus aethiopicus 'Sprengeri' L.
Classification
Family
Genus
Subname
'Sprengeri'
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
[New Zealand, South Island, Canterbury Land District], Christchurch
Field Collection Date
21 Feb 2001
Field Collection Notes
Cultivated. Scrambling or semi-climbing shrub with very short, spiny scale leaves on older stem parts. Flowers fragrant, pinkish-white. Periant with ube c. 2.5mm long, lobes 2.2 - 2.5mm long, elliptic, reflexed. Stamens slightly < perianth; anthers bright orange. Fruit 6-8mm diam. Globose or subglobose, glossy scarlet. Seed black.
Dup. ex CHR (592134A), received May 2008
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-43.52714, 172.63847 (± 5 km)
172.63847, 172.63847 (± 5 km)
Last Update
03 Jun 2020
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