The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District is looking for the county’s biggest sassafras for the 2025 Big Tree Contest. The contest promotes the beauty and benefits provided by Geauga ...

Light: For the best results, 'grow sassafrass in full to part shade, ideally somewhere with plenty of sunshine each day. It ...

My 94-year-old Dad just helped me picked sassafras leaves for me to make File’ for gumbo. I have one of the cookbooks from the late first lady of Indiana, Beth Bowen.

In other ways, it is a colorful tree, interesting in all seasons. It has bright-green, aromatic twigs. In spring, fragrant, profuse, green to yellow flowers appear in upright clusters on drooping ...

In the spring, sassafras produces tiny, yellow five-petalled flowers as the new leaves unfurl. There are three distinct leaf shapes growing on the sassafras tree- an oval, a mitten-shaped leaf, and a ...

To West, sassafras leaves are an abundant and overlooked resource, perfect for making a homemade gumbo filé. Authentic gumbo, West said, includes sausage, okra, seafood and roux, a dark, thick ...

These Sassafras leaves, when chewed, at once set up a mucilaginous slime in the mouth, like that of Slippery Elm twigs, which country children love to taste; the hot and thirsty botanist, as well ...

Sassafras is a tree that’s native to certain parts of North America and Eastern Asia. It has smooth bark and fragrant leaves.