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 aethiopicus turn red in the winter. The root system is a mat of fibrous roots with bulbous tubers, from which plants may resprout. "Asparagus aethiopicus" is native to southeastern coastal regions of South Africa, in the Eastern Cape and the Northern Provinces. In the United States, it has been declared a weed in Hawaii, and Florida. It has also been declared a weed in New Zealand, and has become established around major urban areas in Australia including Sydney, Wollongong, the Central Coast, Southeastern Queensland, and Adelaide, as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Seeds are spread by fruit-eating birds