| Scientific Name: | Asparagus setaceus |
| Common Name: | plumosus fern |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Africa |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Alkaline |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Alternate, Fascicles, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Acicular |
| Flowers: | White, Jun-Oct |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Purple, Black, Jul-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Fern-like to some; leaves reduced to spines and scales; cladodes needle-like, feathery, 1-2cm long x <0.5mm wide. | |