Duly convinced this is something completely new, they call this matter "asparagin", after the asparagus plant they extracted it from.

Battling the Beetles Q. Just as we were leaving our weekend house, we noticed some small, narrow spotted bugs on the asparagus plants.

Moving Day for Asparagus Q. Most of my fenced vegetable garden is taken up by three-year-old asparagus plants.

Although deer and rabbits ignore mature asparagus plants, they will eat tender new shoots as fast as they come up.

And the asparagus plant makes a tall feathery filler late in the season.

Its common name comes from the fact that the foliage resembles that ferny top of a mature asparagus plant.

The amino acid asparagine gets its name from asparagus, as the asparagus plant is relatively rich in this compound.

It can be cultivated from seed, but many growers prefer to buy young asparagus plants, known as crowns.

It is also the color of a wild asparagus plant blowing in the wind of the 1949 classic film Sands of Iwo Jima.

In the area of the municipality you can find the 'Soto de Pontejos' poplar forests, with wild asparagus plants growing under the trees and among other thorny shrubs.