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 asparagoides Asparagus asparagoides Asparagus asparagoides, commonly known as bridal creeper, bridal-veil creeper, gnarboola, smilax or smilax asparagus, is a herbaceous climbing plant of the family Asparagaceae native to eastern and southern Africa. Sometimes grown as an ornamental plant, it has become a serious environmental weed in Australia and New Zealand. Linnaeus first described this species as "Medeola asparagoides" in 1753. It has been reclassified in the genus "Asparagus" by W. Wight in 1909, or "Myrsiphyllum" by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow in 1808. "Asparagus asparagoides" grows as a herbaceous vine with a scrambling or climbing habit which can reach 3 m (10