Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine' Fragrant We later lost our stock

We later lost our stock and got the clone back from Mike Creel

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

mounded form unaided

for the soft yellow petals brushed with a dark thumbprint at the base

the copper iris opens in warm coppery red to burnt orange

Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine' Fragrant We later lost our stockIllicium 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