{"id":13077,"date":"2021-05-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:07:17","slug":"new-anise-hybrid-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/05\/01\/new-anise-hybrid-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Compact Anise Hybrid Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-NCIH1-Scorpio-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-NCIH1-Scorpio-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-NCIH1-Scorpio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-NCIH1-Scorpio-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Scorpio Anise Shrub (Photo from Dr. Tom Ranney, NCSU Mountain Research Lab, Mills River, NC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two new hybrid anise (<em>Illicium<\/em>) shrubs have been released by the NCSU Mountain Crop Improvement Lab in Mills River, NC.&nbsp; These new star anise shrubs, bred by Dr. Tom Ranney, are hybrids between <em>Illicium floridanum<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>I. mexicanum<\/em>.&nbsp; These native evergreen shrubs are low-maintenance and adapt to a wide range of growing conditions (USDA hardiness zones 6b-9a &#8211; hardy in zone 6a in a protected landscape area).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These new anise hybrids grow 3 feet high x 5 feet wide in either full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained, moderately\nacidic @ pH 6.0 &nbsp;soil. Anise shrubs tolerate\nshady, damp, and wet sites as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anise shrubs have two main bloom seasons, first in April-May and\nbloom sporadically in September -November. Flowers are solitary and mostly\noutward-facing to nodding. Individual blossoms last 5-10 days and emit a slight\nanise fragrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-Scorpio-and-Orion-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-Scorpio-and-Orion-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-Scorpio-and-Orion-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Illicium-Scorpio-and-Orion-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8216;Orion&#8217; (White) and &#8216;Scorpio&#8217; (Red) Anise Shrub (photo from Dr. Tom Ranney)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nevergreen leaves are smooth (glabrous), moderately shade tolerant, and highly\ndisease and deer resistant. These dense, well-branched shrubs exhibit lateral branches ranging between 7.5 and 18 inches in\nlength. Green fruits, less than one inch wide, ripen greenish yellow late in\nthe year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Scorpio\u2019<\/strong> bears large 1-3\ninch wide bright burgundy red flowers that bloom in spring with secondary\nflowering in early fall.&nbsp;This moderately growing shrub is compact, 3-5\nfeet tall and wide along with handsome evergreen foliage.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Orion\u2019<\/strong> bears large 1-3\ninch wide yellowish-white flowers with numerous strap-shaped, radial petals, averaging\n22 in number. Blooms heavily in spring and sparsely in early fall. This compact\n3-5 feet tall and wide shrub has handsome evergreen foliage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new hybrid anise (Illicium) shrubs have been released by the NCSU Mountain Crop Improvement Lab in Mills River, NC.&nbsp; These new star anise shrubs, bred by Dr. Tom Ranney, are hybrids between Illicium floridanum&nbsp;and&nbsp;I. mexicanum.&nbsp; These native evergreen shrubs are low-maintenance and adapt to a wide range of growing conditions (USDA hardiness zones 6b-9a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[357,987,707,956,1319,299,605,144,778,674,806,800,604,774,627,630,705,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13082,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions\/13082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}