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What does anise look like?
Anise, properly named star anise, is10-15m high; The crown is tower-shaped, oval or conical; Bark dark gray; Dense branches.

Evergreen trees, with irregular leaves, alternate, 3-6 sub-whorls or loosely clustered at the top, leathery, thick leathery, obovate-elliptic, oblanceolate or elliptic, 5-15cm long, 2-5cm wide, with a sharp or short tapering tip and a tapering or wedge-shaped base; Transparent oil spots can be seen in the sun; Midrib is slightly concave above leaves and uplifted below; Petiole is 8-20mm long.

The inner ring of the flower is pink to deep red, with solitary leaf axils or near terminal ones, and the pedicel is15-40mm long; Tepals 7- 12, often 10- 1 1, often with inconspicuous translucent glandular points. The largest tepals are oval to oval in width, 9- 12 mm in length and 8-/kloc-0 in width.

Stamens 1 1-20, mostly 13, 14, 1.8-3.5 mm long, filaments 0.5- 1.6 mm long, connective truncated, Carpels are usually 8, sometimes 7 or 9, rarely 1 1, 2.5-4.5 mm long at anthesis, ovary 1.2-2 mm long, style subulate and longer than ovary.

The pedicel is 20-56mm long, and aggregate fruit and aggregate fruit are composed of 8-9 fruits. 3.5-4 cm in diameter, full and straight, mostly 8, octagonal, length 14-20 mm, width 7- 12 mm, thickness 3-6 mm, and blunt or sharp apex.

The seed is 7 7- 10/0mm long, 4-6mm wide and 2.5-3mm thick. Regular rough fruit blooms in March-May, ripens in September-1October, blooms in spring rough fruit in August-1October, and ripens in March-April of the following year.