Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an unlobed leaf (football), one ...

Sassafras is a tree that’s native to certain parts of North America and Eastern Asia. It has smooth bark and fragrant leaves. However, sassafras traditionally includes safrole, which the Food ...

Some maples, sweetgum, and oaks have red fall leaves. Dogwoods, black tupelo trees, sourwood trees, persimmons, and some sassafras trees also have red leaves. Chlorophyll is destroyed with the ...

Each stamp showcases a single leaf from the aspen, sassafras, oak, maple and sweetgum trees. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using existing photographs. "I am ...