Schisandraceae
Star anise
Illicium verum
- Family
- Schisandraceae
- Genus
- Illicium
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Common names
By language (69)
- Afrikaans
- Steranys
- Arabic
- ليسوم حقيقي, ليسوم نجمي, إليسيوم نجمي
- arz
- ليسوم
- ban
- Kembang pekak
- Bangla
- তারকা মৌরি, চক্রফুল, তারা মসলা
- Basque
- Txinatar anis, Izar anis
- Belarusian
- Бадзян сапраўдны
- bjn
- Kambang Sisir
- bo
- གོ་སྙོད་ཟུར་བརྒྱད།
- Bulgarian
- Звездовиден анасон
- Cantonese
- 八角
- Catalan
- Anís estrellat, I. verum
- Chinese
- 八角, 八角茴香, 唛角, 大茴香, 大料
- Czech
- Badyáník pravý
- Danish
- Stjerneanis
- Dutch
- Steranijs
- English
- Star anise, Staranise tree, Staranise, Chinese star anise, Star aniseed
- Estonian
- Harilik tähtaniisipuu
- Filipino
- Sangke
- Finnish
- Rusotähtianis
- French
- Badianier de Chine, Badianier Chinois
- Galician
- Anís estrelado
- German
- Echter Sternanis
- Greek
- Αστεροειδής γλυκάνισος
- Gujarati
- બાદિયાન
- hak
- Pat-kok
- Hausa
- Star anise
- Hebrew
- כוכב אניס
- Hindi
- चक्रफूल
- Hungarian
- Csillagánizs
- Indonesian
- Bunga lawang, Kembang lawang, Pekak
- Irish
- Réalt-ainís
- Japanese
- トウシキミ, スターアニス, 八角, 八角茴香
- Javanese
- Sembang lawang
- Kannada
- ಮರಾಟಿಮೊಗ್ಗು
- Korean
- 팔각
- Latvian
- Īstā ilīcija, Zvaigžņu anīss
- Luxembourgish
- Stäranäis, Anisi stellati fructus
- Macedonian
- Ѕвездест анасон
- Malay
- Bunga lawang
- Malayalam
- തക്കോലം
- Marathi
- चक्रफूल
- min
- Bungo lawang
- nan
- Peh-kak
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Stjerneanis
- Occitan
- Badiana
- Odia
- ଅନାସି ଫୁଲ
- pam
- Sangke
- Persian
- بادیان ختایی
- Polish
- Badian właściwy, Anyż gwiazdkowaty, Anyż gwiazdkowy, Anyż gwiaździsty
- Portuguese
- Estrela-de-anis
- Punjabi
- ਸਟਾਰ ਸੌਂਫ
- Russian
- Бадьян настоящий, Анис звёздчатый
- Serbian
- Звездасти анис
- Sindhi
- باديان خطائي
- Slovak
- Badián
- Slovenian
- Zvezdasti janež, Kitajski janež, Zvezdni janež
- Swedish
- Stjärnanis
- Tajik
- Бодиёни чинӣ
- Thai
- โป๊ยกั้ก
- Turkish
- Yıldız anason
- Ukrainian
- Бодян справжній
- Urdu
- بادیان خطائی, بادیان ختائی, بادیان کا پھول
- Uyghur
- شاكال بەدىيان
- vec
- Àneze stelà
- Vietnamese
- Đại hồi
- Walloon
- Anisse-sitoele
- wuu
- 八角
- za
- Makgak
Synonyms
- Illicium san-ki Perr.
- Illicium stellatum Makino
Photos
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bff, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: François Nguyen, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.