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 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