| Scientific Name: | Asparagus virgatus |
| Common Name: | tree fern, African broom fern |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Floristry |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Bipinnate, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Highly branched and extremely fine-textured (fern-like to some); leaves alternate but reduced to scales; cladodes in clusters of 3-6, needle-like, most 10-15mm long x <0.2-0.5mm wide. | |