how to delete folders called * without deleting other folders?

[sohlinux]

this may look unusual but I have a lot of folders called * , I want to recursively delete them all but if I use rm -rf * command it deletes all the other folders too

for example

[~]# mkdir 001
[~]# cd 001
[~/001]# mkdir *
[~/001]# mkdir 001
[~/001]# ls
./ ../ */ 001/
[~/001]# rm -rf *
[~/001]# ls
./ ../

how can I only delete the folders called *? and I need to do it recursively.

thanks

[sandyd]

this may look unusual but I have a lot of folders called * , I want to recursively delete them all but if I use rm -rf * command it deletes all the other folders too

for example

[~]# mkdir 001
[~]# cd 001
[~/001]# mkdir *
[~/001]# mkdir 001
[~/001]# ls
./ ../ */ 001/
[~/001]# rm -rf *
[~/001]# ls
./ ../

how can I only delete the folders called *? and I need to do it recursively.

thanks

escape using double quotes
i.e. like

rm -rf "*"

[sohlinux]

escape using double quotes
i.e. like

rm -rf "*"

thanks