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 (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