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Nursery Direct
Aniseed Myrtle
Backhousia anisata
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Aniseed Myrtle - Backhousia anisata
Crush a leaf and the aniseed comes through strongly: this is the bushfood tree behind aniseed myrtle tea and native spice blends. Backhousia anisata is confined in the wild to a small area of subtropical rainforest in the Nambucca and Bellinger valleys of northern New South Wales, where it grows tall and straight, but in gardens it usually settles into a dense, glossy leaved small tree that responds well to being cut for harvest. Sprays of fluffy cream flowers cover the canopy in warm weather.
Why Aniseed Myrtle
Culinary Leaf: Leaves are harvested fresh or dried for tea, baking and spice mixes with a clean aniseed note.
Flower Display: Masses of small fluffy cream flowers smother the canopy in spring and summer.
Dense Screen: Branches low and holds foliage to the ground when grown in the open.
Rainforest Origin: Naturally restricted in the wild, so growing it has genuine conservation value.
Harvest Response: Tolerates regular tip pruning and can even be maintained as a tall hedge.
Ideal Applications
Bushfood Planting: Grown for a continuous leaf harvest close to the kitchen.
Rainforest Screen: Planted in a row it gives a dense evergreen boundary in subtropical gardens.
Shaded Courtyard Tree: Handles part shade and enclosed warm spaces.
Native Mixed Border: Combines with lemon myrtle, midyim and native gingers.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn in warm districts
Soil & Drainage: Moisture retentive, well drained soil rich in organic matter, mulched heavily
Establishment Care: Water twice a week through the first two summers, since drought stress causes sudden leaf drop that takes a season to recover from. Shelter young plants from frost and hot westerly wind for their first three years.
Plant Details
Height: 6 to 12m in cultivation, taller in closed rainforest
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Subtropical rainforest of the mid north coast of New South Wales
Flower Colour: Cream to white
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







