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Scorpio Star Flower Anise (Illicium) – 3 Gallon Pot
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Scorpio Star Flower Anise
Illicium floridanum ‘Scorpio Star Flower’
Other Names: Scorpio Anise-Tree, Star Flower Scorpio, Star Anise, Scorpio Florida Anise
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Evergreen Shrub
Height at Maturity:Â 5-6′
Width at Maturity:Â 5-6′
Spacing:Â Â 4′ for solid hedges; 8’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form:Â Rounded Mound
Growth Rate:Â Moderate
Flower Color:Â Scarlet Red
Flower Size:Â Large for an Anise
Flowering Period:Â Year Round!
Flower Type:Â Semi-Double
Fragrant Flowers:Â Slight
Foliage Color:Â Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage:Â Yes
Berries/ Pods:Â Â NA
Sun Needs:Â Full To Mostly Shade, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun
Water Needs:Â Â Average
Soil Type:Â Â Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage:Â Well Drained Moist, Moderately Drained
Soil pH:Â 5.5 – 7.5
Maintenance / Care:Â Low
Attracts:Â Visual Attention
Resistances:Â Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Dense Shade, Rabbits
Descriptions
A new and more adaptive hybrid Illicium cross between I. floridanum and I. mexicanum, the Scorpio Star Flower Anise breaks the mold with a low and mounding habit to around 5 feet tall and and equally as wide. The plants in our Georgia and North Carolina gardens bloom year round! A perfect choice for shady home foundation plantings and landscape borders, its abundant 2 to 3 inch star-shaped flowers with green eyes shine like stars against the backdrop of evergreen, deep blue-green leaves that have a wonderful anise scent. That said, in more sun the leaves will be more of an olive green color, but still handsome. Extremely adaptable, this hybrid will thrive in moist or dry shade and part shade to dense shade! What’s more, the deer, rabbits and most other pests turn their nose up to it.Â
Landscape & Garden Uses
With an upright habit and rounded form 5 to 6 feet tall and equally as wide, Scorpio Star Flower Anise is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or in groupings or as a low evergreen hedge in home foundation plantings and sunny or shady woodland borders. Perfect for planting under large trees. An excellent home foundation plant. Also nice in pots, planters and other containers. A fine addition to woodland gardens, white them gardens, fragrance gardens and cottage gardens.
Suggested Spacing:Â 4 feet apart for solid hedges;Â 8 feet or more apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Scorpio Star Flower Anise is very easy to grow in organically rich, moist but well-drained soils in part shade to part shade. For best appearance and performance we recommend some shade in the afternoon. No pruning necessary. That said, plants can be selectively pruned for shaping purposes.
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Very healthy, big plant arrived in perfect condition and in bloom as well! Unusual Anise plant with red flowers and they aren’t small like most Anise. These blooms show up in my landscape. I’m giving it specimen status in my garden. I’ve never been disappointed in plants that I’ve ordered from Wilson Bros Gardens!—————————————————-Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I am very pleased with the shrub I received. The shipping was quick and the plants were very well packaged. I am happy with the size of the Illicium, as it will make an immediate impact in my garden. It has a ton of new growth and should bloom this Spring/Summer. Exciting!————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Well packaged and arrived in excellent shape (I purchased 3 of these). They appear to be doing very nicely under our cypress. Flowers are as shown and nicely visible.———————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
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