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illicium verum family illiciaceae commercial part dried fruit description star anise is the dried, star shaped fruit of illicium verum. it is an evergreen tree attaining a height of - meters and a diameter of cm. the leaves are entire, - cm long, – cm broad, elliptic, flowers are solitary, white to red in
colour. fruits are star shaped, reddish brown consisting of - carpels arranged in a whorl. each carpel is mm long, boat shaped, hard and wrinkled containing a seed. seeds are brown, compressed, ovoid, smooth, shiny and brittle. origin and distribution star anise is indigenous to south eastern china....
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it has spread all over the little area where we put a few plants. i was very excited to see that. the bluebells don't appear to have made it, but we'll get more and put them in a place that we can keep an eye on them. i think the deer ate them last year. something dragged them out of the ground, and...
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