Asparagus Island 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 on the western side of The Lizard peninsula and is named after the rare wild asparagus ("Asparagus prostratus") found there. Much of the Lizard peninsula is known for its botany and geology, and about 375 million years ago the molten rock, which eventually became the Lizard, is about 10 km (6 mi) below the surface of the earth and under immense heat and pressure. One of the
Asparagus Island South-west coastal footpath from a nearby National Trust car park. Asparagus Island is within the Lizard National Nature Reserve, only the best habitats and geological formations are designated as NNRs. The red data book species wild asparagus grows on the island and has been known there since the 1830s. In 1847 Gibson writes that it is in some danger of being eradicated because the (tourist) guides gather it so frequently. A number of microliths and other Mesolithic flints have been found and despite being reported as a flint working site, there is no evidence for this. A Danish brig the