Botany
A slender, climbiing or ascending, branched perennial, with round, green and wiry stems, with very numerous slender branchlets that spread horizontally, forming triangular fernlike sprays. Leaves (cladodes) are setaceous, very slender, 3-5 mm long, ascending and spreading, 6 to 13 in a fascicle. Flowers are small and solitary at the ends of the branches with very short pedicels. Fruit is a purple and black ovoid berry.

Distribution
Cultivated for ornamental use.

Uses
Oramental
The cuts sprays of the asparagus fern are ornamental favorites among florists for its beauty and lasting quality.
Folkloric
Not known in the Philippines for its medicinal application, but in Mexico a decoction of the branches are used for pulmonary infections.
Decoction of roots used as a diuretic.

Availability
Cultivated for ornmental use.