Asparagus asparagoides fruiting stages

Different Asparagus asparagoides fruit stages are heralded by different colours. All the fruits dangle from long pedicels.

The green and the red ones represent the usual unripe and ripe stages, while the white one near the tip is unusual. It has probably been modified by an herbivorous consumer that removed the skin and some outer parts. The deed was not done by the spider that left territorial signs as well, possible proof of ambush. Maybe the spider ate the fruit eater before it could depart.

The ripe, red fruit has split along segment lines visible from the time when it was green. Asparagus fruits bear one to several seeds. Ripeness arrived from the stem-tip here. Summer heat and drought cause leaves to die back (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist).