Illicium henryi 26/6 Restock The journey did not end

The journey did not end there: David Geiger later found a specimen labeled 'Woodlanders Low Form' at the Cornell Arboretum in New York

born from a botanical marriage of the Eustis limequat (itself a cross of kumquat and lime) and the Hong Kong kumquat (Fortunella hindsii)

and the toughness inkberry brings from the wild bogs

giving the canopy a layered seasonal interest that most broadleaf evergreens never manage

Illicium henryi 26/6 Restock The journey did not endThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star anise family, Schisandraceae, their name from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the scent of the leaves. Illicium henryi, the Henry anise, is the Chinese member of the group, a handsome, dense, pyramidal to rounded evergreen with waxy flowers in shades of coppery pink to deep carmine red and aromatic, glossy foliage. The plant honors Augustine Henry, the great Irish