1、 Blade difference

The leaves of malachita are alternate, palmately compound, with 7-11 leaflets, in strip lanceolate shape, about 7-5cm long and 1-1.5cm wide. The edges are serrated or pinnately divided. The color is purplish red when young, and will turn dark green in the later stage, and the leaf veins are brown

Compared with the former, the leaves of octagonal gold plate are wider, leathery, nearly circular, about 12-30 cm in diameter, palmately 7-9 deeply divided, the lobes are long oval oval oval, the apex is short and acuminate, the base is heart-shaped, the edge has coarse sawtooth, the upper part is dark green, the lower part is slightly light, and the edge is sometimes golden yellow

2、 The difference between flowers

Peacock wood is a compound umbel, which grows in the axil of the leaf at the top of the stem, and the color of the floret is yellow green

The star anise is a panicle, growing at the top, and the color of the flowers is yellow and white