Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine' Fragrant Our stock plant has sat

Our stock plant has sat at roughly waist height and four feet across for years now

For the Guaraní and Tupi peoples of subtropical South America

and shearing leave the plant untroubled

setting into the cool amber aiyu jelly beloved in the night markets of Taiwan and Singapore

the copper iris opens in warm coppery red to burnt orange

Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine' Fragrant Our stock plant has satIllicium parviflorum, the Ocala or small anise, is a rare Florida endemic, an aromatic evergreen of the star anise family, Schisandraceae, tougher and more sun tolerant than its showier cousin the Florida anise. 'Florida Sunshine' is the selection that made the species famous: a form whose foliage glows chartreuse gold through spring and summer, holding the anise scent of the genus in leaves that light up a shaded corner. The real show comes with the