![]() ![]() The young leaves and twigs are quite mucilaginous and produce a citrus-like scent when crushed. Three-lobed leaves are more common in Sassafras tzumu and S. randaiense than in their North American counterparts, although three-lobed leaves sometimes occur on S. albidum. The species are unusual in having three distinct leaf patterns on the same plant: unlobed oval, bilobed (mitten-shaped), and trilobed (three-pronged) the leaves are hardly ever five-lobed. Sassafras trees grow from 9–35 metres (30–115 feet) tall with many slender sympodial branches and smooth, orange-brown bark or yellow bark. The genus is distinguished by its aromatic properties, which have made the tree useful to humans. ![]() Sassafras is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia. ![]() For other uses, see Sassafras (disambiguation). ![]()
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