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sassafras
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sassafras: see laurel laurel, common name for the Lauraceae, a family of forest trees and shrubs found mainly in tropical SE Asia but also abundant in tropical America. Most have aromatic bark and foliage and are evergreen; deciduous species are usually those that extend into temperate
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sassafras

North American tree (Sassafras albidum) of the laurel family. The aromatic leaf, bark, and root are used as a flavouring, as a traditional home medicine, and as a tea. The aromatic roots yield about 2% oil of sassafras, once the characteristic ingredient of root beer. The tree is native to sandy soils from Maine to Ontario and Iowa and south to Florida and Texas. It is usually small but may attain a height of 65 ft (20 m) or more. It has furrowed bark, bright green twigs, small clusters of yellow flowers followed by dark blue berries, and three distinctive forms of leaves, often on the same twig: three-lobed, two-lobed (mitten-shaped), and entire.


sassafras
1. an aromatic deciduous lauraceous tree, Sassafras albidum, of North America, having three-lobed leaves and dark blue fruits
2. the aromatic dried root bark of this tree, used as a flavouring, and yielding sassafras oil
3. Austral any of several unrelated trees having a similar fragrant bark

sassafras [′sas·ə‚fras]
(botany)
Sassafras albidum.A medium-sized tree of the order Magnoliales recognized by the bright-green color and aromatic odor of the leaves and twigs.


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LIVER LOVE TEA 2 part burdock root 1 part dandelion root 1/4 part licorice root 1/8 part sassafrass root bark Place one tablespoon of dried herb mix to one cup water in a saucepan with cover on the stove.
One is reminded of the nonlinear plotting, multivocality, and motific quilts of Gloria Naylor's Mama Day (1988) and the radical language of and Sassafrass's literal and figurative weaving in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (1982).
Then there's good old Sassafrass (Sassafrass alidbum), another native tree used for hundreds of years by Native Americans and Appalachian folk as a blood cleanser and for making root beer.
 
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