Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortAsparagus officinalis
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | multi stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | vegetables, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | perennial | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | medium (50-150 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 15 | 30 | 6 | 38 | Soil texture | medium, organic | medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 800 | 1200 | 500 | 4000 | Soil fertility | high | moderate |
| Latitude | - | - | 60 | 60 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 2600 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 6 | 6.7 | 4.5 | 8.2 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -5 | Killing temp. early growth | -1 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | large scale/commercial, protected cultivation | Crop cycle | 210 | 270 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| food & beverage | vitamins | bark |
| food & beverage | vitamins | bark |
| food & beverage | protein | bark |
| medicinal | digestive system applications | roots |
| medicinal | blood system applications | roots |
| medicinal | endocrine system applications | roots |