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 An
Illustrated Guide to
Common Weeds
of New Zealand
Asparagus
scandens
climbing
asparagus
Family
ASPARAGACEAE
Reproduced from
Common
Weeds of New Zealand
by Ian Popay, Paul Champion & Trevor James
ISBN 0 473 09760 5
by kind permission of the
New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
Publication or other use of images or descriptive
text on these pages is unauthorised unless written permission is
obtained from the authors and publisher.
Appropriate acknowledgement
of the publication Common Weeds of New Zealand must always
be given.
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Slender scrambling
or climbing perennial, with feathery cladodes (green, flattened
stems that resemble leaves) usually in threes at each node. Flowers
small, solitary, white, followed by red berries.
- Flowers White,
rarely pale pink, 3-4 mm long, solitary in leaf axils. Flowers
Sep-Dec.
- Fruit Round
red berry about 8 mm in diameter, with a solitary round black
seed about 4 mm in diameter.
- Leaves Narrow
lance-shaped, flattened, curved cladodes usually in threes at
each node, 5-15 mm long by 0.8-1.5 mm wide, one noticeably longer.
- Stems Green,
strongly binding to its support, much-branched at the top, up
to 2 m long.
- Roots Tuberous.
Habitat
Forest remnants, regenerating
forest, grassy places, rock walls and hedges.
Distribution
In NI only, at Whangarei,
Woodhill Forest, Auckland City, Wanganui, Wellington. Originally
from South Africa.
Comments
Listed on the National
Pest Plant Accord (see Introduction for details).
Derivation
of botanical name
Asparagus (Lat.)
= asparagus; scandens (Lat.) = climbing.
Web-notes:
Weed Links
On this site
Reproduced from Common Weeds
of New Zealand:
External Links
 Weedbusters
New Zealand
- Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to
protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
- AgPest
- A free tool to assist farmers and agricultural professionals in decision-making regarding weed and pest identification, biology, impact and management.
 New Zealand Weeds Key
- An interactive identification key to the weeds of New Zealand. Developed at Landcare Research.
New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network naturalised plants
- Search for information on more than 2500 naturalised and weedy plants.
 New
Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial organisms
and methods for modifying their effects."
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 Massey
University Weeds Database- A site providing information about New Zealand weeds and weed control.
It has a series of pages showing pictures of New Zealand weeds, notes on
identification and control. It also provides information on a university
paper entitled Controlling Weeds.
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