Asparagus, also known as "Di Bamboo Shoots" and "Southern Di Bamboo Shoots", are the buds of the Asparagus plant in the Liliaceae family.

Description of the shape of Cypress arborescens:

Upright herb, up to 1 meter high; roots slightly fleshy, 2-3 mm thick. The stem is smooth, and the upper part often droops in the later stage; the branches are weak. Leaf-like branches clustered in clusters of 3-6 each, nearly cylindrical, slightly flattened, slender, somewhat arcuate, 5-30 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm thick; leaves scale-like, with short or nearly spinous bases. distance. Each flower is 1-4 axillary, unisexual, dioecious, green-yellow, pedicel 7-14 mm long, joints located at the upper or near middle; male flowers: 6 tepals, 5-6 mm long; filaments adnate below the middle On the tepals; anthers are oblong, 1-1.5 mm long; female flowers are smaller, about 3 mm long, with 6 vestigial stamens. The fruit is spherical, 7-8 mm in diameter, red when mature, with 2-3 seeds. In my country, there are wild ones only in the northwest of Xinjiang. They are often cultivated in other areas, and there are also a few that escape into the wild. They are distributed in a vast area from Central Europe to North Africa, and eastward to western Siberia and Central Asia. It is cultivated all over the world and the young seedlings can be used as vegetables.