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Abstract 1.1. Asparagus species morphology and their methods of propagation: Asparagus (family Liliaceae) is a permanent herbs or woody vines and shrubs with fleshy tuberous or cord-like roots. Shrubs one feet as in Asparagus madagascariensis to six feet long as in Asparagus myriodadus and Asparagus retrofractus climbing six feet as in the case of Aspara- gus aperengeri and Asparagus dedumben to forty feet of in Asparagus falcatus. It is a common garden vegetable and others grown for ornamental green; leaves reduced to scale cylindrical, oval flat or awl shape. They are thread or needle-like, articu- late, pinnate filiform 4 inches long. The branchlets (cladodes) are characterized by being narrow and green. The leaves are solitary, in axillary fascicles, forming fern like fronda 3-4 angled. Their colour changes from green- ish white to dark green, Berries maybe white, orange red, red, scarlet, pink, brown or dark to purple black from 1-% inches across. Flowers colour is white fragrants, creamy white, green- iah white to dark green, scarlet or pink to 3 inches long. maybe incobaicous solitary, axillary, in erect racemes or in umbella 1-2 or together clustered. The decorative kinda are of easy culture but most of them tender to frost. They are commonly grown under glass or other cover, propagated by seeds, division or woody kinds. |