The shortest fruiting time of Illicium verum is 3-4 years, and the longest is 5-8 years. The first fruiting period of Illicium verum is 8- 18 years for afforestation and 6- 15 years for fast-growing forest, starting from 19 years, and the fast-growing forest starts from 16 years for plant aging.

Trees, leathery or thick leathery leaves, obovate elliptic or oblanceolate, with dark green and shiny leaves, and small oil spots can be seen under sunlight perspective. Flowers pink or crimson, with inconspicuous translucent glandular spots. Aggregate fruit is mostly octagonal. Rarely five or six-sided. _ _ Full and straight, the apex is blunt or blunt, and the seeds are brown and shiny. Illicium verum evergreen arbor plant, plant height10-15m. Bark gray to reddish brown. The branches are dense and extend horizontally. Simple leaves alternate, leathery leaves, elliptic obovate to elliptic oblanceolate, 5-1/cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide. Flowers are solitary in leaf axils in spring, pink to deep red. Aggregate fruit radioactive star-shaped, 3.5 cm in diameter, reddish brown; _ _ The tip is blunt and beak-shaped, and each _ _ contains one seed. The seeds are oblate, reddish brown or grayish brown, shiny and sweet. If the fruit is star-shaped, it is named. Alias anise, star anise and August pearl. Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, leathery, acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, dark green above, bright and hairless, with transparent oil spots, light green below, and sparsely hairy. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicellated; Sepals 3, yellow-green; Petals 6-9, pale red to deep red, broadly ovoid or oblong; The flowering period is spring and autumn, and the fruiting period is autumn to the following spring. Aggregate fruit is star-shaped. The seeds are oblate, about 6mm long, reddish brown or yellowish brown, and bright. Growing in a humid and loose mountain area. Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.