Sassafras
Fast facts
- Genus
- Sassafras
Scientific name
- Scientific name
- Sassafras
How to say it in other languages
- Spanish
- Sasafrás
Facts from Wikipedia’s “Sassafras” page and Wikispecies (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Sassafras is a genus that contains three current and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae. It was originally in eastern North America and eastern Asia.
Sassafras trees grow from 9.1–18 m (30–59 ft) tall and from 7.6–12 m (25–39 ft) wide. The trunk grows 70–150 cm (28–59.1 in) across.
“Sassafras” was named by the botanist Nicolas Monardes in the 16th century. It is said to be a corruption of the Spanish word for saxifrage.
Species
- Sassafras albidum - Eastern North America, from southernmost Ontario, Canada, through the eastern United States south to central Florida, and west to southern Iowa and eastern Texas.
- Sassafras hesperia - Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation in Washington and British Columbia
- Sassafras tzumu - Central and southwestern China.
- Sassafras randaiense - Taiwan.
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