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Sassafras trunk. Note horizontal cuts in bark.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Mar 04, 2001 |
| 21 |
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Sassafras shoot. Note upward arching of branches.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Mar 04, 2001 |
| 22 |
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Sassafras root. Biggest we’ve ever pulled.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Mar 04, 2001 |
| 7 |
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Sassafras. Wildman pointing out ridges in the bark.
Source: Central Park, Mar 19, 2000 |
| 28 |
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Sassafras.
Source: Central Park, May 08, 2005 |
| 29 |
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Sassafras.
Source: Central Park, May 08, 2005 |
| 8 |
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Sassafras. Root can make tea. Dried leaves can make filé.
Source: Alley Pond Park (Woods), Queens, May 14, 2000 |
| 30 |
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Sassafras. Three types of leaves.
Source: Central Park, May 30, 2005 |
| 9 |
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Sassafras leaves. They come in three types.
Source: Central Park, Jun 10, 2000 |
| 10 |
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One of the tour participants smelling the sasasfras root she pulled.
Source: Central Park, Jun 10, 2000 |
| 11 |
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Sassafras. Note three different shapes of leaves.
Source: Central Park, Jul 02, 2000 |
| 23 |
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Sassafras tree trunk.
Source: Forest Park, Queens, Jul 04, 2001 |
| 24 |
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Sassafras leaves.
Source: Forest Park, Queens, Jul 04, 2001 |
| 31 |
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Sassafras root. Boil it for tea.
Source: Forest Park, Queens, Jul 04, 2011 |
| 32 |
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Sassafras. All three leaf shapes are visible.
Source: Forest Park, Queens, Jul 04, 2011 |
| 33 |
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Wildman holds up sassafras leaves and explains the three shapes that can have.
Source: Inwood Park, Manhattan, Jul 17, 2011 |
| 34 |
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Sassafras root.
Source: Inwood Park, Manhattan, Jul 17, 2011 |
| 35 |
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Sassafras leaves. Leaves also good in spring.
Source: Inwood Park, Manhattan, Jul 17, 2011 |
| 12 |
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Sassafras tree. Note three leaf shapes.
Source: Central Park, Jul 29, 2000 |
| 13 |
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Sassafras root. Can make tea from it. Flavor is in the cambium, the outer layer on the root.
Source: Central Park, Jul 29, 2000 |
| 25 |
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Sassafras.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Jul 29, 2001 |
| 26 |
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Sassafras leaves.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Jul 29, 2001 |
| 27 |
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Sassafras.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Jul 29, 2001 |
| 14 |
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Sassafras leaves.
Source: Central Park, Aug 20, 2000 |
| 15 |
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Wildman holding sassafras root.
Source: Central Park, Aug 20, 2000 |
| 16 |
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Sassafras
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Sep 02, 2000 |
| 17 |
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Sassafras root. Boil for tea.
Source: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Sep 02, 2000 |
| 1 |
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Sassafras. Well, the leaves had all fallen, and the camera would never have focused on the twigs of the little ones, so I took pictures of some trunks. This one the flash came on.
Source: Cunningham Park, Queens, Nov 14, 1999 |
| 2 |
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Sassafras. Then I tried one with the flash turned off.
Source: Cunningham Park, Queens, Nov 14, 1999 |
| 3 |
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Sassafras. A bigger trunk with the flash on. The camera has a tendency to overexpose flash pictures.
Source: Cunningham Park, Queens, Nov 14, 1999 |
| 4 |
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Sassafras. So I took one with the flash off. But with the longer exposure time, and hand holding the camera, it is a bit blurred.
Source: Cunningham Park, Queens, Nov 14, 1999 |
| 18 |
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Sassafras tree trunk
Source: Central Park, Nov 19, 2000 |
| 19 |
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Sassafras saplings
Source: Central Park, Nov 19, 2000 |
| 5 |
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Sassafras. Leaves are gone, but note the upward branching.
Source: Central Park, Nov 21, 1999 |
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Sassafras. Wildman tries to eat some.
Source: Central Park, Nov 21, 1999 |
