Asparagus aethiopicus green berries

Shiny green fruits of Asparagus aethiopicus are clustered in dense cylinders on short stalks where the racemes of flowers used to be among the green cladodes.

Fruit-eating bird species watch for the ripe red colour to feast. They disperse the seeds, ensuring that dry bush and scrub retains a presence of these plants.

The cladodes or false leaves are flat, narrow and straight, growing in clusters of four to six. They become 1 cm to 4 cm long and 1 mm to 2 mm wide (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Wikipedia).