Asparagus capensis ripe fruit

The spherical fruit on this Asparagus capensis plant are ripe, gone past purple to black. The fruit grows to about 4 mm in diameter.

The false leaves or cladodes can be seen growing in clusters or whorls on short, green side-branchlets of the pale grey stems. The cladodes on this species are straight, needle-like, a little hairy and shorter than 5 mm (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Manning, 2007).