Illicium

Star anise Illicium verum is a universally used spice grown primarily in China, India and the Phillipines.

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Star Anise Star anise is the strikingly star-shaped woody fruit of a tree in the magnolia family, Illicium verum, a native of South China and Indochina.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Star Anise Star anise is the strikingly star-shaped woody fruit of a tree in the magnolia family, Illicium verum, a native of South China and Indochina.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

_Anise Stell_, or _Star Anise_, from the fruit of Illicium verum, obtained from China.

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

_Cleyera Japonica; _ cotoneasters and pyracantha; eleagnus of the types grown under glass in the North; gardenias; euonymus (A); hollies (A); anise-tree, _Illicium anisatum; _ cherry laurels, _Prunus_ or

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Illicium anisatum immediate effect immortelles inarching

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

How sublimely rise to view, on thy elevated shores, yon Magnolian groves, from whose tops the surrounding expanse is perfumed, by clouds of incense, blended with the exhaling balm of the Liquid-amber, and odours continually arising from circumambient aromatic groves of Illicium, Myrica, Laurus, and Bignonia.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

Illicium floridanum or Florida anise is naturally distributed across the moist woodlands of Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.

tcpalm.com Stories 2010

Illicium verum, contain 2-7 per cent shikimic acid and are an important source of the chemical.

SciDev.Net 2009

Officials at the Federal Drug Administration say DNA barcoding can reliably distinguish the seedpods of star anise (Illicium verum), an herb commonly used in teas, cooking and herbal remedies, from the otherwise identical seedpods of a sister species (Illicium anisatin) that is considered a health risk due to the presence of neurotoxins.

Cosmic Log 2009