Plant: BananAppeal - Anise
Anise · Illicium parviflorum 'PIIIP-I'
$40.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Full Shade
Bloom
Spring
Mature size
12 ft tall10 ft wide
More about this plant
A small, upright and mounded anise shrub with golden, anise scented evergreen leaves that stay bright through winter, reaching about 3 to 4 feet tall and wide. It grows in shade to part sun and tolerates most soils, wet sites and deer. Use it in shade gardens, woodland plantings, borders and containers. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Full Shade
- Grows to 12 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A small, upright and mounded anise shrub with golden, anise scented evergreen leaves that stay bright through winter, reaching about 3 to 4 feet tall and wide. It grows in shade to part sun and tolerates most soils, wet sites and deer. Use it in shade gardens, woodland plantings, borders and containers. All parts are poisonous if eaten.
- Flowers
- Nodding, cup shaped yellow to yellowish green flowers in spring.
- Foliage
- Golden to chartreuse evergreen leaves that smell of anise when crushed and do not bleach over winter.
- Fruit
- Star shaped aggregate of follicles, poisonous and not a substitute for star anise.
- Bark & stems
- Dark brown bark, smooth to coarse with sparse lenticels.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Pruning
- Prune after blooming. Remove old or diseased wood to improve airflow and shape as needed.
- Native range
- Florida
