Asparagus Island "Ospra" hit Asparagus Island in the early hours of Sunday, 6 May 1832. She was carrying sugar and coffee (worth £10,000), on a voyage from Havana to Hamburg. The crew, with the exception of one man who drowned, climbed onto the island and walked ashore at dawn. Both the vessel and cargo were a total loss. The wreck became known in local legend, as the ″coffee wreck″. Asparagus Island Asparagus Island is a small tidal island on the eastern side of Mount's Bay, within the parish of Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies within Kynance Cove, a popular tourist site
Asparagus (genus) ecological and evolutionary processes that keep them functioning, yet ever changing and adapting. Most are dispersed by birds. Ornamental species such as "Asparagus plumosus", "Asparagus aethiopicus", "Asparagus setaceus", and "Asparagus virgatus" are finely branched and are misleadingly known as "asparagus fern". In the Macaronesian Islands, several species (such as "Asparagus umbellatus" and "Asparagus scoparius") grow in moist laurel forest habitat, and preserve the original form of a leafy vine. In the drier Mediterranean climate the asparagus genus evolved in the Tertiary into thorny, drought-adapted species. Root tubers are storage organs developed by Asparagus spp. and are a valuable source of