Survives zone 3 through 8
Young emerging spears eaten raw or cooked — the entire crop; grassy-sweet. ⚠ The red berries on female plants are not edible (mildly toxic) — only the spears are food.
- Hardiness
- Zone 3 to 8
- Habit
- Herb
- Edible part
- Shoot
- Ripens
- Spears cut in spring for about 6–8 weeks, then growth is left to rebuild the crown
- Mature size
- Herbaceous fern-like perennial to ~1.5 m when fronded
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.0
- Environment
- Temperate coastal
- Status
- Cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Dioecious — separate male and female plants; male plants are more productive of spears