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Sassafras is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The genus is distinguished by its aromatic properties, which have made the tree useful to humans.
Sassafras albidum is used primarily in the United States as the key ingredient in home brewed root beer and as a thickener and flavouring in traditional Louisiana Creole gumbo. [24] Filé powder, also called gumbo filé, for its use in making gumbo, is a spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the sassafras tree.
Sassafras: sassafras trees; Sassafras albidum: sassafras Lauraceae (laurel family) 931 Umbellularia: umbellularia trees; Umbellularia californica: California laurel Lauraceae (laurel family) 981 Lecythidaceae: lecythis family; Bertholletia: bertholletia trees; Bertholletia excelsa: Brazil nut Lecythidaceae (lecythis family) Couroupita ...
The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an unlobed leaf (football), one-lobed leaf (mitten) and a two-lobed leaf (ghost). Native Plant: Tall coreopsis is the symbol of summer in central Ohio.
Atherosperma moschatum, commonly known as black sassafras, Australian sassafras, southern sassafras, native sassafras or Tasmanian sassafras, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Atherospermataceae and the only species in the genus Atherosperma. It is a shrub to conical tree and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has densely hairy ...
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Atherospermataceae, or Southern Sassafras, a southern hemisphere family of trees; Doryphora sassafras, an Australian tree from temperate rainforests; Sassafras albidum, the sassafras tree of eastern North America, used in tea, root beer, and gumbo filé powder
Doryphora sassafras, commonly known as sassafras, yellow sassafras, golden deal or golden sassafras, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the Southern Sassafras Family Atherospermataceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub to tree with elliptic or egg-shaped leaves and contrasting white flowers which occur in autumn and winter.