Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

ASPARAGUS (G)
Wild asparagus, Katdoring, Wilde Aspersie (Le)
Family: ASPARAGACEAE

a-, = intensive (very much);
sparagmos, sparasso, = a rending, tearing, mangling.
(referring to the sharp spines)
OR
spargan, = to be full to bursting, to teem, swell, be ripe.
(to swell or sprout)
(LS, Le)

Asparagus kraussianus

Location: (P)

For Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krausse (1812-1890),** German botanist and traveller, professor and Director of the Natural History Museum at Stuttgart, zoologist and plant collector in South Africa, associated with Stuttgart Natural History Museum. He also studied minerology and chemistry. He came to the Cape in 1838, and did much plant collecting in Natal in 1839 and 1840.
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.

(Ch, BL)