At the market the other day I saw one of my favorite vendors with her usual massive piles of green and white asparagus. (I find myself very firmly on Team Green Asparagus.) But she also had these weird little bundles of "wild asparagus," which I would not initially have recognized as asparagus at all. They have tiny, delicate stalks and big bushy heads, and they kind of looked like a different plant entirely. But they're not, they're wild asparagus.
So I got some to play with. I ate a couple raw, and they had a flavor like a very light, young asparagus. (Which seems obvious, but sometimes you just have to put something in your mouth to believe it.) I've also been in the mood to make a risotto recently, so I made wild asparagus risotto.