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 acutifolius Asparagus acutifolius Asparagus acutifolius, common name wild asparagus, is an evergreen perennial plant belonging to the genus "Asparagus". The specific epithet, , meaning "thorny leaves", is derived from Latin (pointed, acute), and (-leaved), and refers to the characteristic shape of the leaves, a quite common feature in the typical plants of the Mediterranean. "Asparagus acutifolius" reaches on average of height. The stems have much-branched feathery foliage. The "leaves" are in fact needle-like modified stems. The flowers are bell-shaped and in small clusters, greenish-white to yellowish, long. The flowers are dioecious (on each plant they are only male or female). In