Scorpio Star Flower Anise (Illicium) – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Shrub

Flower Color:  Scarlet Red

Flower Size:  Large for an Anise

Flowering Period:  Year Round!

Flower Type:  Semi-Double

Fragrant Flowers:  Slight

Foliage Color:  Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes

Berries/ Pods:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Dense Shade, Rabbits

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. 

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:  4 feet apart for solid hedges; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants