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For decades, until the 2010s, the iconic Sioux City sarsaparilla bottle was sold in retail stores in the United States.. Sarsaparilla (UK: / ˌ s ɑːr s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə /, US also / ˌ s æ s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə / sas-pə-RIL-ə) [1] [2] is a soft drink originally made from the vine Smilax ornata (also called 'sarsaparilla') or other species of Smilax such as Smilax officinalis. [3]
Common names include sarsaparilla, [4] Honduran sarsaparilla, [4] and Jamaican sarsaparilla. [ 4 ] It is known in Spanish as zarzaparrilla , which is derived from the words zarza meaning "bramble" (from Basque sartzia "bramble"), and parrilla , meaning "little grape vine".
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make a soft drink called sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor.
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Smilax aristolochiifolia is native to Mexico and Central America. [17] Sarsaparilla is native to the Mesoamerica region, especially in Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala. [17] In North America, sarsaparilla originates in Southern Mexico, being found primarily in the states of Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán, [17] Nuevo León, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Quintana Roo. [16]
Smilax glyciphylla, sweet sarsaparilla, native to Eastern Australia; Smilax officinalis, native to Central and South America; Other plant species known by the same name include: Alphitonia, known as sarsaparilla in Australia; Hardenbergia violacea, known as sarsaparilla in Australia; Aralia nudicaulis, known as wild sarsaparilla
Sarsaparilla (also zarzaparrilla, sarsparilla) is a name used specifically for the Neotropical S. ornata as well as a catch-all term in particular for American species. Occasionally, the non-woody species such as the smooth herbaceous greenbrier ( S. herbacea ) are separated as genus Nemexia ; they are commonly known by the rather ambiguous ...