Pretty sure that’s Sassafras. Used to make Root Beer and MDMA
duckweedlagoon
I’m not a professional but that looks like sassafras to me. When you rub or break the leaves, does it smell like anything? When I was at summer camp as a kid we always swore it smelled like Fruit Loops
*Do not taste it until you’re sure it’s safe
JoeMash22
Sassafras is an aromatic, deciduous tree native to eastern North America, known for its distinctive leaves and fragrant bark and roots, which are used to make root beer, tea, and the gumbo thickener filé. The tree is adaptable to various soils and light conditions, often found in open woodlands and fields, and is a host plant for several butterfly and moth species.
Zealousideal_Safe_51
It’s sassafras. But what’s wrong with hickory?
kontpab
Ghost, mitten, and eye. They are all there, sassafras! One of my favorites.
tnbama92
It is definitely not hickory. It is sassafras
JuicyChobits
Wow my whole life i heard the word sassafras and never knew it was a tree let alone looked like this! Thanks peeps 🙂
mmilthomasn
Sassafras. Crush the stems/break twigs and take whiff. If it smells spicy, almost like wintergreen, that’s Sassafras.
It used to be used in tonics and sodas and candies, but turns out to be sort of carcinogenic, so that practice has diminished.
This is a species that readily takes over fields as first gen reforestation. It’s sort of like a weed in that regard, and sprouts like weeds. It has beautiful red foliage in the fall, and smells great when you mow, so I’m a fan.
Educational-Act-2697
There are plenty of trees I look at and think ehh it’s probably some kind of hickory, but those all have compound leaves. Sassafras has the alien hand, the mitten and the regular leaf and smells delightful when crushed it’s unmistakable.
D3athlyBag3l
okay i won’t
QuietVisit2042
Yep, definitely looks like Sassafras
NuncioBitis
Sassafras.
Very sassy.
Soft-Explanation9889
No ma’am – those are leaves. 😁
They look more like sassafras leaves than hickory. Hickory leaves are pointed and each point is a separate delineated leaf.
Just-Dentist3265
That is very clearly sassafras. People used to make root beer with it, but found it can cause cancer.
LokiLB
Sassafras is a host plant for spicebush swallowtails.
DeathStarTruther
i will not tell you it’s hickory. because it is sassafras
Pale-Dragonfruit-757
That’s a fig plant
Delicious-Ad4015
I won’t
No_Performance8733
I think it’s a tulip tree, not sassafras. They are very similar, tho
mykeyzRgone
It’s a dickery-dock then.
Jingeasy
Sassafras! Love drying out the leaves and crushing them up to make filé to thicken soups. Roots have also been used by Appalachian and other communities as a “blood cleanser” tonic in the Spring (also was the OG ingredient for root beer), but the roots contain safrole, which studies show is carcinogenic. The FDA banned it as an additive in root beer. The leaves don’t contain levels of safrole to be of concern however
bigtime_porgrammer
Now you can harvest safrole
Wuzzupdoc42
Note to self: sassafras leaves look like Big Bird hands
Lucky_Man_Infinity
Not a Hickory
barchael
Sassafrasserassa
robk636
Sassafras, got the 3 different leaves. The Spear the Mitten and the Trident.
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Sassafras
Ok, It’s not Hickory , it’s Sassafras
Pretty sure that’s Sassafras. Used to make Root Beer and MDMA
I’m not a professional but that looks like sassafras to me. When you rub or break the leaves, does it smell like anything? When I was at summer camp as a kid we always swore it smelled like Fruit Loops
*Do not taste it until you’re sure it’s safe
Sassafras is an aromatic, deciduous tree native to eastern North America, known for its distinctive leaves and fragrant bark and roots, which are used to make root beer, tea, and the gumbo thickener filé. The tree is adaptable to various soils and light conditions, often found in open woodlands and fields, and is a host plant for several butterfly and moth species.
It’s sassafras. But what’s wrong with hickory?
Ghost, mitten, and eye. They are all there, sassafras! One of my favorites.
It is definitely not hickory. It is sassafras
Wow my whole life i heard the word sassafras and never knew it was a tree let alone looked like this! Thanks peeps 🙂
Sassafras. Crush the stems/break twigs and take whiff. If it smells spicy, almost like wintergreen, that’s Sassafras.
It used to be used in tonics and sodas and candies, but turns out to be sort of carcinogenic, so that practice has diminished.
This is a species that readily takes over fields as first gen reforestation. It’s sort of like a weed in that regard, and sprouts like weeds. It has beautiful red foliage in the fall, and smells great when you mow, so I’m a fan.
There are plenty of trees I look at and think ehh it’s probably some kind of hickory, but those all have compound leaves. Sassafras has the alien hand, the mitten and the regular leaf and smells delightful when crushed it’s unmistakable.
okay i won’t
Yep, definitely looks like Sassafras
Sassafras.
Very sassy.
No ma’am – those are leaves. 😁
They look more like sassafras leaves than hickory. Hickory leaves are pointed and each point is a separate delineated leaf.
That is very clearly sassafras. People used to make root beer with it, but found it can cause cancer.
Sassafras is a host plant for spicebush swallowtails.
i will not tell you it’s hickory. because it is sassafras
That’s a fig plant
I won’t
I think it’s a tulip tree, not sassafras. They are very similar, tho
It’s a dickery-dock then.
Sassafras! Love drying out the leaves and crushing them up to make filé to thicken soups. Roots have also been used by Appalachian and other communities as a “blood cleanser” tonic in the Spring (also was the OG ingredient for root beer), but the roots contain safrole, which studies show is carcinogenic. The FDA banned it as an additive in root beer. The leaves don’t contain levels of safrole to be of concern however
Now you can harvest safrole
Note to self: sassafras leaves look like Big Bird hands
Not a Hickory
Sassafrasserassa
Sassafras, got the 3 different leaves. The Spear the Mitten and the Trident.
Don’t give me no sassafras!