Sassafras variifolium
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Read about Sassafras variifolium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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