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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Illiciaceae (シキミ科) > Illicium anisatum
Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)
Ca 90 spp. in three genera, when established (by post-APG II) ⇐ Ohwi: includied in Magnoliaceae |
Illicium L. (シキミ)I. anisatum L. (シキミ)I. arborescens Hayata (アカバナシキミ) I. philippinense Merr. (シロバナシキミ) I. tashiroi Maxim. (ヤエヤマシキミ) |
I. verum Hook. f. (トウシキミ)
Schisandra Michx. (マツブサ)Kadsura Kaempf. ex Juss. (サネカズラ)One species, K. japonica (L.) Dunal (サネカズラ) |
Shikimi (シキミ, 樒/櫁), Japanese star anise
Lifeform: evergreen, short tree ≈ 10 m in height
Distribution: China - Korea (Jeju Island) - Japan (south to the Central Honshu)
Habitat: mountainous forests → transplantation to various regions
Flower: March-April
Poisonous plant
Use: fruits for spice, ba jiao (八角), in China
Synonyms:
Illicium religiosum Siebold et Zucc.
Illicium japonicum Siebold ex Masam.
var. masa-ogatae (Makino) Honda (オキナワシキミ)
f. roseum (Makino) Okuyama (ウスベニシキミ)
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[1-3] at the foot of Mount Misen (弥山, 535 m elevation), Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 16 2014.