Best-known for the tea that pioneers made by boiling its root bark, the aromatic native Sassafras albidum, or sassafras tree, is an interesting, useful and showy addition to central Ohio landscapes.

The sassafras tree has many uses, but perhaps none better than making root beer. Sassafras oil has a pleasant, somewhat spicy scent that gives root beer its unique flavor. Incidentally, root beer gets ...

You might know Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) as the original root beer flavoring ingredient. While the tree's oil is no longer used to give the beverage its aroma, modern root beer flavor mimics the ...

While walking on the Stage Trail at Hickory Run State Park, I was attracted to several unusual bronze, golden and yellow leaves beneath my feet. I put some little "mitten" shaped leaves in my pocket ...

Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an unlobed leaf (football), one-lobed ...

Sassafras was once one of the largest exports from the U.S. to Europe. Native Americans used the inner root bark of the tree, indigenous to the eastern part of the country, to calm upset stomachs and ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

79 percent of the plants in Micronesia are not found elsewhere. Michael Balick, director of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden, might know more about Pohnpei than anyone ...

Native America turned the bounty of the land into the essentials of life. The tree that the Narragansett Indians called sasaukaka-pamuch, which we today call sassafras, was no exception. Long before ...

Among the more interesting points brought out by this study are the following: the early thickening of the cuticle; the variation in the number of epidermal hairs and stomata; the early formation of ...