Thank You. I just found this old variety in France…..PREBELLE

[RayFromFrance]

I translated this on google. Not perfect, but understandable.
An interesting note here is that they say that the green and white is all one plant, at least for this variety.

VARIETY OF ASPARAGUS

There are many varieties of asparagus in Europe. In the South of France, we grow mainly three varieties: ACR, Argenteuil and PREBELLE. The first two have been replaced in recent years by the Dutch hybrids or clones as Grolim GIMLIM and which represent more than half of cultivation at present. Most of the varieties produce either white or green asparagus, only the mode of culture define the color of spears. It suffices to butter (covering a mound of earth 30 cm) the asparagus crowns to produce white spears and instead let it grow in the open air and sunlight to produce asparagus nice and green.

In Provence, particularly in the Vaucluse, we select and preserved an old French variety, PREBELLE. Its performance is quite low, but the caliber of shoots is very important (22 + representing more than 50% of asparagus, I recall that the caliber of the asparagus is 12-16, 16-22, 22 +, 24 + … expresses the diameter in millimeters of the base of the stalk). The growth of this variety is very fast and gives very little fibrous stalks. She is also very sweet and postharvest has the advantage not to twist.

All these qualities have earned him to be on the card as many different names as asparagus Lauris Villelaure, Perth, Pernes fountains restaurants … In the end, that’s add more asparagus is fresher, it is soft and very very fibrous.

In recent years, we grow a variety of asparagus old Italian native Liguria, whence comes its name, asparagus purple lilac. Much softer than the green asparagus is a garnet purple color. She unfortunately the disadvantage to green when cooked.

Here is the original website in french :

http://galistruffe.over-blog.com/pages/VARIETES_DASPERGES-2704517.html