Illicium mexicanum x floridanum album 'Woodland Ruby' Richard Lynch and hawthorns

and hawthorns

a bright curtain against the glossy evergreen leaves

and goldenrod that share the late season

The first flush runs through early summer

Illicium mexicanum x floridanum album 'Woodland Ruby' Richard Lynch and hawthornsThe 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