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Asparagus officinalis (asparagus)
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Top of pagePreferred Scientific Name
- Asparagus officinalis L.
Preferred Common Name
- asparagus
Other Scientific Names
- Asparagus longifolius Fisch ex. Steud.
International Common Names
- Spanish: espárrago; esparraguera
- French: asperge
- Arabic: hilyawn
- Portuguese: espargo
Local Common Names
- Germany: Spargel
- Italy: asparagio; spaghero
- Japan: oranda-kiji-kakushi
- Sweden: sparris
EPPO code
- ASPOF (Asparagus officinalis)
Taxonomic Tree
Top of page- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Spermatophyta
- Subphylum: Angiospermae
- Class: Monocotyledonae
- Order: Liliales
- Family: Liliaceae
- Genus: Asparagus
- Species: Asparagus officinalis
List of Pests
Top of pageMajor host of:
Adelphocoris lineolatus (lucerne bug); Agrotis ipsilon (black cutworm); Agrotis segetum (turnip moth); Arabis mosaic virus (hop bare-bine); Arion vulgaris (Spanish slug); Asparagus virus 1; Asparagus virus 2; Cercospora asparagi (leaf spot: Asparagus spp.); Crioceris asparagi (asparagus beetle); Crioceris duodecimpunctata (spotted asparagus beetle); Deroceras invadens (tramp slug); Frankliniella intonsa (thrips, flower); Longidorus (longidorids); Loxostege sticticalis (beet webworm); Myzus persicae (green peach aphid); Ophiomyia simplex (asparagus miner); Parasaissetia nigra (pomegranate scale); Paspalum distichum (knotgrass); Penicillium aurantiogriseum (crown rot of asparagus); Phomopsis asparagi (stemblight: Asparagus spp.); Phytophthora cryptogea (tomato foot rot); Phytophthora megasperma (root rot); Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale); Pleospora tarda; Popillia japonica (Japanese beetle); Puccinia asparagi (asparagus rust); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Saissetia oleae (olive scale); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips); Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (cottony soft rot); Scutellonema brachyurus; Senecio vulgaris; Stemphylium vesicarium (onion leaf blight); Strawberry latent ringspot virus (latent ring spot of strawberry); Thlaspi arvense (field pennycress); Tobacco streak virus (tobacco streak); Xiphinema (dagger nematode); Zacerata asparagiMinor host of:
Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot pigweed); Aphis fabae (black bean aphid); Arion hortensis (garden slug); Botryotinia fuckeliana (grey mould-rot); Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Chinavia hilaris (green stink bug); Chrysodeixis includens (soybean looper); Chrysomphalus aonidum (circular scale); Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle); Cochliobolus lunatus (head mould of grasses, rice and sorghum); Cuscuta japonica (Japanese dodder); Delia platura (bean seed fly); Deroceras reticulatum (grey field slug); Diaspidiotus perniciosus (San José scale); Fallopia convolvulus (black bindweed); Gibberella avenacea (Fusarium blight); Haematonectria haematococca (dry rot of potato); Halotydeus destructor (redlegged earth mite); Lygus lineolaris (tarnished plant bug); Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug); Meloidogyne ethiopica (Root-knot nematode); Meloidogyne incognita (root-knot nematode); Murgantia histrionica (harlequin bug); Pectobacterium atrosepticum (potato blackleg disease); Peridroma saucia (pearly underwing moth); Phlyctinus callosus (vine calandra); Phytophthora nicotianae (black shank); Polygonum aviculare (prostrate knotweed); Portulaca oleracea (purslane); Pratylenchus penetrans (nematode, northern root lesion); Rosellinia necatrix (dematophora root rot); Sciobius horni (potato snout beetle); Scirtothrips aurantii (South African citrus thrips); Sesamia nonagrioides (Mediterranean corn stalk borer); Solanum elaeagnifolium (silverleaf nightshade); Somaticus terricola; Spergula arvensis (corn spurry); Spodoptera eridania (southern armyworm); Spodoptera exigua (beet armyworm); Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm); Spodoptera littoralis (cotton leafworm); Thanatephorus cucumeris (many names, depending on host); Thrips tabaci (onion thrips); Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper)Associated with (not a host):
Hypocrea rufa (green mould of narcissus); Pseudomonas putida (biocontrol: Erwinia spp.); Sarocladium strictum (acremonium wilt)Host of (source - data mining):
Adoretus sinicus (Chinese rose beetle); Apterothrips secticornis; Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly); Brachycorynella asparagi (asparagus aphid); Cadophora malorum (fruit rot of apple); Chirothrips manicatus; Cylindrocarpon didymum; Diabrotica speciosa (cucurbit beetle); Euxoa messoria (darksided cutworm); Euxoa scandens (white cutworm); Frankliniella tritici (eastern flower thrips); Fusarium culmorum (culm rot: cereals); Fusarium oxysporum (basal rot); Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. asparagi (foot rot: Asparagus spp.); Fusarium proliferatum; Fusarium redolens (root rot: pea); Glomerella cingulata (anthracnose); Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm); Hyles livornica; Lacanobia oleracea (bright-line brown-eye moth); Meloidogyne (root knot nematodes); Nipaecoccus viridis (spherical mealybug); Penicillium hirsutum (bulb rot of hyacinth); Phytophthora (foot rot); Pleospora herbarum (leaf blight of onion); Pseudocochliobolus eragrostidis (leaf spot: maize); Pseudocochliobolus pallescens (leaf spot of maize); Pyrenochaeta terrestris (pink root of onion); Spodoptera litura (taro caterpillar); Tetranychus urticae (two-spotted spider mite); Thrips obscuratus (new Zealand flower thrips); Zopfia rhizophila (root rot: Asparagus spp.)Uses List
Top of pageHuman food and beverage
- Vegetable
Medicinal, pharmaceutical
- Traditional/folklore