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Scientific Name: | Asparagus densiflorus 'Sprengeri' |
Common Name: | Sprengeri asparagus fern |
Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
Origin: | Africa - southern |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering cut plant, Indoor foliage plant |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Pendulous |
Form: | Weeping |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Needle-like, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Acicular, Entire |
Flowers: | Panicle, White, Jun-Aug |
Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Jun-Nov |
Key ID Features: | |
Foliage of flattened branchlets (resembles a fern to some), spines ~1cm long at nodes; flattened, needle-like cladodes in clusters of 3, linear, most ~2cm long x ~2mm wide. |