Japan Flora: Rhizomes short-creeping with stout fibrous roots; stems 1-1.5 m. long, smooth, much branched, terete; cladodes slender, 5-8 in a fascicle, filiform, acuminate, 1-2 cm. long, straight; flow­ers tubular-campanulate, yellowish green, the pedicels solitary or paired, slender; anthers narrowly ovate, obtuse, nearly as long as the filaments; fruit red, globose.  May-June.

Eu­rope. Cultivated as a vegetable in our gardens.