お供えしなかった樒の枝から蕾が出て、花が咲きました。

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Japanese star anise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicium_anisatum

is often used in funerals and as offerings to the family ancestors at a family Buddhist altar.　Some branches we didn’t use put some buds and then…we got to see flowers of the plant for the first time ever.