Buy Asparagus Sprengerii Fern - Elegant and Low Maintenance Houseplant
- Common name:
- Asparagus Sprengerii, Sprengeri Fern
- Regional name:
- Marathi - Satavari, Hindi - Satavari, Bengali - Stmuli, Gujarati - Satavar, Kannada - Jayibem, Malayalam - Shatavali, Sanskrit - Shatavari, Tamil - Kilavari, Telugu - Philli Tega
- Category:
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Shrubs, Medicinal Plants, Groundcovers, Indoor Plants
- Family:
- Liliaceae or Lily family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers in flushes throughout the year, Flowers are inconspicuous
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- White
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Form:
- Low spreading, Weeping
- Special Character:
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- Auspicious or Feng Shui plant
- Good for Cut foliage
- Good for screening
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
- Attracts bees
- Thorny or Spiny
- Suitable for road median planting
- Hanging or weeping growth habit
- Salt or salinity tolerant
- Good on seaside
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Over thousands
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Plant Description:
- - This is the most commonly grown ornamental Asparagus.
- Plants have stiff leaves that are borne on long shoots.
- Asparagus are easy plants to grow.
- They belong to the lily family. They all have swollen roots.
- Plants have finely cut leaves. These leaves are sought after by florists for flower arrangements.
- Asparagus plants throw up new shoots from the base. each new shoot is stronger and larger than the previous ones.
- The flowers are tiny, white and borne in profusion.
- The fruit is small, round, green and matures to red and then black.
- Plants can be trimmed to keep in shape.
- Plants are often used for planting in balconies or raised beds so that they hang down.
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Growing tips:
- - Asparagus plants are easy to grow.
- Rarely do we come across anybody - who has a problem growing this asparagus plant.
- Plants like rich, fertile and well drained soil.
- They can be grown both in the soil as well as pots.
- If planted in pots they have to be changed every few years as the pots get full of swollen roots.