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The wood of sassafras trees has been used as a material for building ships and furniture in China, Europe, and the United States, and sassafras played an important role in the history of the European colonization of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries. Sassafras twigs have been used as toothbrushes and fire starters. [18]
Atherosperma moschatum subsp. integrifolium is a shrub or a medium-sized tree that typically grows to a height of 4–30 m (13–98 ft). Its leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, mostly lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end toward the base, or sometimes elliptic, nutmeg-scented when crushed, 30–95 mm (1.2–3.7 in) long and 8–23 mm (0.31–0.91 in) wide on a petiole 2 ...
Safrole can be obtained fairly easily from the root bark of Sassafras albidum via steam distillation. It has been used as a natural insect or pest deterrent. [22] Godfrey's Cordial, as well as other tonics given to children that consisted of opiates, used sassafras to disguise other strong smells and odours associated with the tonics. It was ...
Queensland kauri; smooth bark kauri; Dundathu pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria: monkey-puzzle trees; Araucaria angustifolia: Paraná pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria araucana: monkey-puzzle Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria bidwillii: bunya-bunya Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria ...
The bark of Sassafras tzumu is durable fine-grained and yellow. The wood is used in shipbuilding and furniture making because of its durability. [8] The plant is used for medicinal purposes, to treat rheumatism and trauma. [9] Essential oils may be extracted from bark, roots, or fruit, and contain a 1% concentration of phenylpropene safrole.
Atherosperma moschatum, commonly known as black sassafras, Australian sassafras, southern sassafras, native sassafras or Tasmanian sassafras, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Atherospermataceae and the only species in the genus Atherosperma. It is a shrub to conical tree and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has densely hairy ...
Safrole is the principal component of brown camphor oil made from Ocotea pretiosa, [4] a plant growing in Brazil, and sassafras oil made from Sassafras albidum.. In the United States, commercially available culinary sassafras oil is usually devoid of safrole due to a rule passed by the U.S. FDA in 1960.
Sandalwood oil, used primarily as a fragrance, for its pleasant, woody fragrance. [24] Sassafras oil, from sassafras root bark. Used in aromatherapy, soap-making, perfumes, and the like. Formerly used as a spice, and as the primary flavoring of root beer, inter alia. Sassafras oil is heavily regulated in the United States due to its high ...