Anise
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Anise, also called aniseed or rarely anix, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia.
Koehler 1887 Pimpinella Anisum
Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
Fruits in hand for scale
Fruits (aniseed)
Absinthe
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Absinthe is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of Artemisia absinthium, together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary h
Anise
…roots and stems impart a mild licorice flavor to soups and stews. Anise is used to flavour Greek ouzo and Bulgarian mastika; Italian sambuca; French absinthe, anisette, and pastis; Portuguese anis which has an aniseed stem in each bottle crystallised with sugar, Spanish anis de chinchón, anís, anísado, and…
Reservoir glass with naturally coloured verte absinthe and an absinthe spoon
Albert Maignan's Green Muse (1895): a poet succumbs to the Green Fairy.
An absinthe frappé, a common way to serve absinthe with simple syrup, water, and crushed ice
L'Absinthe, by Edgar Degas, 1876