Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock Give Japanese anise a semi-shaded

Give Japanese anise a semi-shaded spot with good

domed panicle is packed with fragrant flowers

longtime senior staff at Woodlanders

The effect is a quiet fire

or a place where structure and foliage matter more than fleeting bloom

Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock Give Japanese anise a semi-shadedSome plants arrive with a pedigree, and some arrive with a person. This one came to us from Ken Wurdack, a botanist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and his work centers on the systematics and evolution of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. He's the sort of botanist who describes entirely new genera in the tribe Hippomaneae, which happens to be the exact tribe Sebastiania sits in. So this is a spurge handed over by a man who