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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable. A flowering perennial plant species in the genus Asparagus in the lily family, like its allium cousins, onions and garlic, it is native to most of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. and is widely cultivated as a vegetable crop. Asparagus is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 100150 centimetres (3959 in) tall, with stout larissa stems with much-branched feathery foliage. The "leaves" are in fact needle-like cladodes (modified stems) in the axils of scale leaves; they are 632 millimetres (0.241.3 in) long and 1 millimetre (0.039 in) broad, and clustered 415 together. Its roots are tuberous. The flowers are bell-shaped, greenish-white to yellowish, 4.56.5 millimetres (0.180.26 in) long, with six tepals partially fused together at the base; they are produced singly or in clusters of 23 in the junctions of the branchlets. It is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants, but sometimes hermaphrodite flowers are found. The fruit is a small red berry 610 mm diameter. Plants native to the western coasts of Europe (from northern Spain north to Ireland, Great Britain, and northwest Germany) are treated as Asparagus officinalis subsp. prostratus (Dumort.) Corb., distinguished by its low-growing, often prostrate stems growing to only 3070 centimetres (1228 in) high, and shorter cladodes 218 millimetres (0.0790.71 in) long. It is treated as a distinct species Asparagus prostratus Dumort by some authors. Asparagus has been used from early times as a vegetable and medicine, owing to its delicate flavour and diuretic properties. There is a recipe for cooking asparagus in the oldest surviving book of recipes, Apiciuss third century AD De re coquinaria, Book III. It was cultivated b... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46319


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156325506
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 73 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156325501
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Amaryllidaceae
  • Width: 229 mm


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