Scientific Name
Asparagus adscendens Roxb.
Synonyms
Family
Asparagaceae.
Local Name
Safiad Musli.
Habit Habitat
A perennial, spiny, subshrub up to 100 cm tall, found in sub-tropical zone.
Taxonomic Features
Root tuberous. Young branches ash gray to white. Spines straight and woody. Stem modified in to leaf-like structures called cladodes, which are many, filiform, mostly 5-20 in number. Inflorescence a raceme, 4-8 cm long. Flower actinomorphic, bisexual, white, subsessile. Fruit a berry, dark red, 4-5mm in diameter.
Flowering Fruiting
September-November.
Harvesting Time
November-December.
Medicinal Value
Useful in dysentery and diarrhea. Locally it is used in impotency for its aphrodisiac properties and as a general body tonic. A local recipe of boiled tubers has been introduced in area.
Parts Used
Root.
Future Prospective
Conservation, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy.
Plant Images
Asparagus adscendens Roxb.