Complex sentence: Asparagus, or garden asparagus, scientific name "Asparagus officinalis", is a spring vegetable, a flowering perennial plant species in the genus "Asparagus".
Split into simpler sentences: Asparagus, or garden asparagus, scientific name "Asparagus officinalis", is a spring vegetable Pieter. A flowering perennial plant species in the genus "Asparagus".