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Bath Asparagus
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, also called Prussian asparagus, wild asparagus, Bath asparagus, Pyrenees star of Bethlehem, or spiked star of Bethlehem, is a plant whose young flower shoots may be eaten as a vegetable, similar to asparagus.
The common name Bath asparagus comes from the fact it was once abundant near the city of the same name in England.
From the article Ornithogalum pyrenaicum on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
How it is grown
Cato the Elder recommends growing wild asparagus in his treatise De agri cultura.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Cultivation History”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 165927.