General description:- Perennial herbs, often with bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tuberous roots; sometimes climbers, rarely annuals or small shrubs.
Flowers:- Usually in racemes or panicles, more rarely solitary or in cymes or umbels, regular or slightly zygomorphic, usually hermaphrodite. Perianth of two whorls, each of (2-)3(-5) usually petaloid segments, free or variously joined margin to margin (connate). Stamens usually as many as perianth-segments, free or connate. Ovary with 3 compartments (3-locular), centre and above the other flower parts (superior) (very rarely 1-locular or semi-inferior); styles 1 or 3(-5).
Fruit:- A capsule that when a ripe splits into the cells, i.e. splits not at the lines of junction between the compartments (locules) (loculicidal) or splits along the lines of junction of the carpels, i.e. along the septa, the fruit valves remaining attached and not falling off (septicidal).
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Over view:-
The Asparagaceae is a large, highly diverse group of monocot flowering plants. Because it includes everything from delicate garden asparagus to massive yuccas and structural agaves, physical traits vary, but members share core monocot and floral patterns
General Growth and Structure:-
Life Form:-
1) Mostly herbaceous perennials, bulbs, corms, or rhizome-bearing
plants; a few grow as shrubs, vines, or tree-like forms with fibrous trunks.
Stems:-
1) Some species (like butcher's broom) reduce leaves to tiny scales and
use modified green stems for photosynthesis
Leaves:-
1) Simple, often narrow or straplike with parallel veins, frequently clustered
in tight basal or terminal rosettes.
Flowers:-
1) Small or showy, grouped in spikes, racemes, panicles, or clusters.
2) Tepals, Six parts in two whorls (three petals and three sepals that look alike).
3) Stamens, Usually six.
4) Ovary, Superior to inferior, three-chambered.
Fruits and Seeds:-
1) Berries, fleshy or dry three-compartment capsules.
2) Seeds, often feature a hard, shiny black outer layer containing a pigment called
phytomelanin.