page_title: Shades of green
section_title: Asparagus
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of green / Green in biological nature / Asparagus
caption_attribution_description: English: Asparagus bundled
context_page_description: Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
context_section_description: Asparagus is a tone of green that is named after the vegetable. Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the 16 to be named in the Name the Color Contest.
  It is also the color of a wild asparagus plant blowing in the wind of the 1949 classic film Sands of Iwo Jima.
  Another name for this color is asparagus green. The first recorded use of "asparagus green" as a color name in English was in 1805.
caption: Bundled stalks of asparagus
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