Alegra-campo (Semele androgyna)

Shrub of the Liliaceae family, subfamily Asparagoideas, widely cultivated in the estates and gardens of Madeira, and which appears spontaneously in some ravines in the interior. Its long branches abundantly provided with small branches adorned with large ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate cladodes are very ornamental and are used to decorate the walls of temples during religious festivities, and for some other purposes. The small-leaved alegra campo is the Asparagus asparagoides, a plant native to the Cape of Good Hope and belonging to the same family and subfamily.