Other Common Names: Florida Anice-tree Scientific Name: Illicium floridanum Ellisd Family: Illiciaceae (Star-anise Family); Genus: Illicium (Star-anise)
Illiciaceae (Star-anise Family) was moved into Schisandraceae (Star-vine Family) and then reversed so that the combined family is now Illiciaceae Range in the US: GA to LA SE Nativity: Yes Habit: Medium Perennial Evergreen Shrub Sun: Shade-full Soil: Average-Moist Germination: Unknown. One month stratification may help Parentage: Cultivated plants, Athens-Clarke and Oglethorpe Counties, GA
Comments: Medium evergreen shrub with leaves resembling small magnolia leaves but with a strong anise odor. Good shrubs for moist pine barrens, full to part shade. The flowers in late spring are reddish brown with many thin petals and sepals. Pollination is by flies. The fruit is a wheel of follicles, each of which explosively expels its single seed as it dries, resulting in a ring of seedlings surrounding the adult.
Both Illicium floridanum and the Florida native Illicium parviflorum are rare in the wild, but extensively used as ornamental shrubs in a wide variety of settings. Illicium and Schisandra glabra, are the only local members of the Order Austrobaileyales, the sister group of the core angiosperms (monocots, magnoliids, and eudicots). Reason enough to have at least one in your landscape.
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