Asparagus adscendens

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Asparagus adscendens

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Family [[]]
Genus Asparagus

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Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated


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Cultivars

History

Uses

Asparagus adscendens Roxb. Himalayas and Afghanistan. From this plant is made, according to Modeen Sheriff, the genuine sufed mush, called in the Deccan shakakul-hindi and used as a substitute for salep [1].

  1. Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pls. 736. 1879.


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