Asparagus scandens

Asparagus scandens, commonly known as the asparagus fern, is a soft shrublet without spines. It has a climbing habit that earned it the scandens specific epithet; the plant grows many green branches to 2 m. The cladodes or false leaves are flat, narrowly lance-shaped and slightly curving forwards to acute tips. They are opposite, two sometimes growing together on one side of the stem with one small one opposing, but all arranged in one plane on the stem.

Flowers grow on long stalks in groups of up to three in the axils, the angles where cladodes meet the stem. Flowering time is spring to midsummer. Spherical orange berries follow. The species is found in forest and scrub shade in the Western and Eastern Cape (Privett and Lutzeyer, 2010; Bean and Johns, 2005).