{"id":2017,"date":"2010-08-21T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2010-08-21T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:09:20","slug":"wild-anise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/21\/wild-anise\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Anise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One troublesome plant that is present on my property is multiflora rose (<em>rosa multiflora<\/em>).  On my early visits to the property after I bought it, I looked around and saw quite a number of large rose bushes and also a fair number of smaller plants.  In early Spring, when wild anise (<em>pimpinella anisum<\/em>) is small, it somewhat resembles multiflora rose, so I thought that I had a worse infestation of rose than I actually did because when I went to pull what I thought was multiflora rose, the stem broke off and I thought, &#8220;uh oh, I&#8217;m in trouble &#8211; this is a root sucker of multiflora rose.&#8221;  Nope.  It turns out that wild anise breaks off at ground level pretty easily.  If you want to see the root, you need to dig with a garden trowel to extract it from the ground.  Crushing the stem or the root produces a pleasant licorice scent, which serves to identify the plant.   As the year progresses, wild anise will reach perhaps (at a maximum) 18&#8243; in height.  I was lucky enough to find a plant that had set seed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wild-anise.jpg\" alt=\"wild anise.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wild anise is not a native plant to Virginia &#8211; it was brought by the early colonists from Europe.  The plant has been in cultivation for at least 4,000 years and is a popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbs2000.com\/herbs\/herbs_anise.htm\">herbal remedy<\/a> for a number of digestive ailments.  Interestingly enough, an herbal tea of anise can be used to relieve heartburn and indigestion &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to go to the local drug store to buy commercially made heartburn remedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One troublesome plant that is present on my property is multiflora rose (rosa multiflora). On my early visits to the property after I bought it, I looked around and saw quite a number of large rose bushes and also a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/21\/wild-anise\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,23,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}