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These imbricate yellow to yellowish-green flowers are 1/2" wide. There are 6-12 petals per flower and flowers have a faint, pleasant scent. Unlike the species, the leaves are a bright chartreuse-green. While the leaves do not drop off in the fall or winter, they do change color from yellow to parchment-pale.
- Illicium Floridanum
The Florida anise tree, also called purple anise, is an...
- Illicium Parviflorum
Plant this shrub as a screen, a hedge, or along the back of...
- Illicium Floridanum
The Florida anise tree, also called purple anise, is an attractive, medium to large, evergreen shrub in the Schisandraceae (starvine) family and native to the southeastern United States and northern Mexico.
Plant this shrub as a screen, a hedge, or along the back of a border in moist, shady areas. It also makes an excellent addition to a woodland garden or as a foundation plant. This plant is particularly resistant to damage by deer. Quick ID Hints: New leaves are soft yellow-green.
Florida anise’s natural habitats are the wet, swampy areas or wooded streams with acidic rich soil from Florida to Louisiana, but it will thrive here in the Carolinas. Illicium grows in partial shade to full shade, but reportedly can be acclimated to full sun if well watered.
24 paź 2023 · Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine'. This Florida anise has chartreuse golden, fragrant foliage for the warm season landscape. Leaves become hot yellow in the fall. Prefers light shade. Glows in the winter garden. Matures at 5 ft. high.
'Florida Sunshine' is an upright, rounded to conical, evergreen shrub or small tree with elliptic, aromatic, glossy, yellow-green leaves turning bright yellow in autumn and cream in winter. Inconspicuous, yellow flowers in late spring are followed by star-like, inedible, green fruit.
Providing year-round interest, Illicium parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’ (Small Anise) is a compact evergreen shrub of rounded habit, noted for its chartreuse golden foliage of elliptic leaves, which turns hot yellow in the fall.
