Sassafras variifolium

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Sassafras variifolium, Kuntze (S. officinale, Nees. S. Sassafras, Karst. Laurus Sassafras, Linn.). Figs. 3552 (winter tree), 3553. Tree, 30-60, or occasionally 90 ft. high: young branches bright green, pubescent: lvs. oval and entire, or 3-lobed almost to the middle, obtusish, silky-pubescent when young, glabrous at length, 3-4 in. long: fls. yellow, 1/4 in. across, glabrous inside, without staminodes, in several-fld. racemes, umbellate when unfolding, afterward at the base of the young branchlets; staminate fls. without rudimentary pistil; staminodes wanting: fr. 1/2 in. high. April, May. Maine to Ont. and Mich., south to Fla. and Texas. S.S. 7:304, 305. Em. 2:360. G.F. 7:215. Gn. 31, p. 449; 63, p. 167. G.W. 13, p. 366. Var. albidum, Fern. (Laurus albida, Nutt.). Buds and younger branches glabrous and glaucous: lvs. glabrous. Mass. to S. C. and Ky. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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