Sassafras [Sassafras albidum]

20: Sassafras trunk. Note horizontal cuts in bark. (Prospect Park, Mar 4, 2001)
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21: Sassafras shoot. Note upward arching of branches. (Prospect Park, Mar 4, 2001)
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22: Sassafras root. Biggest we've ever pulled. (Prospect Park, Mar 4, 2001)
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7: Sassafras. Wildman pointing out ridges in the bark. (Central Park, Mar 19, 2000)
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28: Sassafras. (Central Park, May 8, 2005)
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29: Sassafras. (Central Park, May 8, 2005)
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8: Sassafras. Root can make tea. Dried leaves can make filé. (Alley Pond Park (Woods), May 14, 2000)
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30: Sassafras. Three types of leaves. (Central Park, May 30, 2005)
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9: Sassafras leaves. They come in three types. (Central Park, Jun 10, 2000)
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10: One of the tour participants smelling the sasasfras root she pulled. (Central Park, Jun 10, 2000)
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11: Sassafras. Note three different shapes of leaves. (Central Park, Jul 2, 2000)
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23: Sassafras tree trunk. (Forest Park, Jul 4, 2001)
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24: Sassafras leaves. (Forest Park, Jul 4, 2001)
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31: Sassafras root. Boil it for tea. (Forest Park, Jul 4, 2011)
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32: Sassafras. All three leaf shapes are visible. (Forest Park, Jul 4, 2011)
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33: Wildman holds up sassafras leaves and explains the three shapes that can have. (Inwood Park, Jul 17, 2011)
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34: Sassafras root. (Inwood Park, Jul 17, 2011)
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35: Sassafras leaves. Leaves also good in spring. (Inwood Park, Jul 17, 2011)
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12: Sassafras tree. Note three leaf shapes. (Central Park, Jul 29, 2000)
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13: Sassafras root. Can make tea from it. Flavor is in the cambium, the outer layer on the root. (Central Park, Jul 29, 2000)
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25: Sassafras. (Prospect Park, Jul 29, 2001)
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26: Sassafras leaves. (Prospect Park, Jul 29, 2001)
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27: Sassafras. (Prospect Park, Jul 29, 2001)
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14: Sassafras leaves. (Central Park, Aug 20, 2000)
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15: Wildman holding sassafras root. (Central Park, Aug 20, 2000)
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16: Sassafras (Prospect Park, Sep 2, 2000)
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17: Sassafras root. Boil for tea. (Prospect Park, Sep 2, 2000)
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1: 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. (Cunningham Park, Nov 14, 1999)
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2: Sassafras. Then I tried one with the flash turned off. (Cunningham Park, Nov 14, 1999)
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3: Sassafras. A bigger trunk with the flash on. The camera has a tendency to overexpose flash pictures. (Cunningham Park, Nov 14, 1999)
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4: 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. (Cunningham Park, Nov 14, 1999)
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18: Sassafras tree trunk (Central Park, Nov 19, 2000)
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19: Sassafras saplings (Central Park, Nov 19, 2000)
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5: Sassafras. Leaves are gone, but note the upward branching. (Central Park, Nov 21, 1999)
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6: Sassafras. Wildman tries to eat some. (Central Park, Nov 21, 1999)
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