🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌲🌿🍃🐡 Star anise (Illicium verum) has anethole, characteristic flavour in cookery & drinks. Another compound from tree, shikimic acid, was industrial precursor to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) from 1990s until recombinant (GM) bacteria developed mid-2000s. People need plants! #BUC2026
