Illicium mexicanum x floridanum album 'Woodland Ruby' Richard Lynch the black fall fruit feeds

the black fall fruit feeds birds

and the plant is a close eastern cousin of the familiar English holly

flame-colored flowers rise over the clump through early to midsummer

and goldenrod that share the late season

and enjoy the rare pleasure of citrus fragrance in a climate too cold for oranges

Illicium mexicanum x floridanum album 'Woodland Ruby' Richard Lynch the black fall fruit feedsThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star anise family, Schisandraceae, prized as some of the finest flowering shrubs for shade. 'Woodland Ruby' is a Woodlanders introduction and one of the showiest of the group, a hybrid between the Mexican anise, Illicium mexicanum, and a white flowered form of the native Florida anise, Illicium floridanum. The cross carries ruby pink, star shaped flowers larger than those of