Talk:Sassafras

message: Sassafras randaiense(Hayata)Rehder is better classified as Yushunia randaiensis (Hayata)Kamikoti, because has flowers with bilocellate anthers, while all others Sassafras species have tetralocellate anthers, beyond others minor diferences.Berton 00:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting, though the Draft Flora of China retains it in Sassafras - do you have references for the above points? MPF 01:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Very useful, thanks! - MPF 09:10, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxo

message: It says the oil is an insect repellant but is the growing plant also an insect repellant (and therefore "nice" to have in the yard)? Nurg 05:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Insect repellant

message: I don't think they put sassfras in root beer anymore, since, as the article states, safrole is a carcinogen.  Edit-- on further research, it seems that sassafras is available without safrole. 67.110.214.131 01:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect that it is just a matter of whether anyone has gotten around to citing them and writing up something.  The main caveat I'd mention is the neutral point of view and the difficulties of drawing conclusions from animal studies (related largely to dosage, the short time periods in animal studies, etc).  The article Safrole might be a better place for this material. Kingdon (talk) 15:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Root beer, usage in 

message: Just wondering...does anyone know?  Thanks.
Because it just grows that way. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.25.20.38 (talk) 22:44, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the Sassafras have three different types of leaves? 

message: The first sentence of the article says there are four species in the genus sassafras, but the "Species" section lists only three.  Which is wrong or incomplete? --Jim Henry (talk) 15:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of species in genus? 

message: I have removed nonsense text - "dfghdfghf fghdh"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.91.9.114 (talk) 04:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted nonsense text 

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message: How is mentioning the mentioning of Sassafras in Lyrics a useful addition to the article? If it is, please do also include Aerosmith' "Love in an elevator", Green Day's "Sassafras Roots" and Bubble Puppy's "Hot Smoke and Sassafras", as well as the Sassafras Song performed in Zoey 101. -91.0.126.172 (talk) 10:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the removal of this section.  See Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles for much more discussion of the subject in general, but I don't see how a list of songs which mention sassafras enhances this article. Kingdon (talk) 04:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pop Culture Section

message: I have been around Sassafras trees for 20 years they do not generally grow to 120 feet 
60-80 would be more accurate for someone researching Sassafras trees, do a little research and fix it?
Sassafras at pollenlibrary.com
Azcen (talk) 21:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well,  says "to 35 m".  I wonder if that is just an error, as the champion S. albidum in Kentucky seems to be only 76 feet tall: . Alternately, perhaps one of the two Asian species is larger? Kingdon (talk) 19:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it is worth, the questionable data was added here: . Kingdon (talk) 19:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Height "Sassafras trees grow from 15–35 m (50–120 feet)" 

message: The Culinary Uses section contains the line "Sassafras tea can also be used as an anticoagulant", on its own without any context. It's not clear whether this is a historical observation based on an Old Wives' Tale, or whether it actually is an effective anticoagulant, and in the latter case it would be interesting to find a good solid reference for this. Otherwise it would be better written as "Sassafras has historically been used as an anticoagulant"; I would change this myself, but I imagine it's a controversial subject. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:07, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Anticoagulant

message: I heard that sassafras was banned as an ingredient under the pretext that it was "carcinogenic" because safrole was being used to induce abortions which were legal at the time of the ban (1960's)but in reality although only anecdotal evidence, a can of beer is as cancer causing as a can of sassafras containing root beer. I just don't know where I could cite the history from. - User:Apclass123 09/25/10
:Unfortunately without any reliable supporting references this isn't information that can be added to the article.  If you can find ref's that support this then post them and we will see where they can be integrated.--Kevmin § 17:19, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I read a similar story in a book on artificial sweeteners which was in my tiny high school library... 207.241.137.116 (talk) 04:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The ban of Sassafras from root beer

message: Deleted silly text at the beginning about how sassafras "is a huge an an a huge monstrosity".  This has nothing to do with the plant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.59.22 (talk) 18:16, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted Silly Text 

message: I think some of the information in this article is too specific.  Sassafras randaiense (Taiwanese Sassafras) is hemaphroditic and protogynous as described in this paper: http://ceeb.econbot.org/2008029.pdf  Also if you look at these images: http://www.arkive.org/sassafras/sassafras-randaiense/image-G102201.html you can see that Sassafras randaiense doesn't seem to have trilobate or bilobate leaves.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ittiz (talk • contribs) 00:55, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sassafras randaiense 

message: Deleted as sources two unpublished papers associated with the Lost Colony website. There are RS for this information (use of sassafras against STD and its value as an export in the early 17th c.). A lengthy footnoted paper on the potential role of sassafras in the settlement of the Lost Colony misused material published in a Virginia-Pilot article, suggesting that it supported a view that a skeleton found in Jamestown, VA in 2002 may have been Gosnold's. (The article clearly says that English researchers concluded it did not match one believed to have been his sister's.) Also deleted an external link to an elementary school project on sassafras.--Parkwells (talk) 16:46, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted OR sources and External link

message: Deleted, "The fruits are an important food source for birds." No citation is provided, and this contradicts information properly cited in the next section, that Sassafras is not consumed in enough quantity to be an important food source. PurserSmith (talk) 22:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted contradictory sentence about sassafras as a food source 

message: This is confusingly structured and oddly phrased.  I've literally never heard it described as "safrole oil" in any text.  The actual Safrole page's first paragraph states:  "It is a colorless or slightly yellow oily liquid typically extracted from the root-bark or the fruit of sassafras plants in the form of sassafras oil."  The essential oils page also calls it "Sassafras oil" but the word Sassafras links to this article, and the word "oil" links to Safrole.  Something seems odd about that, too, but shouldn't this page deal with the essential oil itself and link to the chemical Safrole rather than equate them?  They Terk Err Jerbs (talk) 07:35, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed the name of that section and changed the "Sassafras oil" page to to the section.  Also cleaned it up a bit.  Let me know if there are issues with this.  Moving the Sassafras oil related detailed information to that page would make for a very short article, and the trend thus far on Wikipedia seems to be that essential oils end up receiving similar treatment elsewhere more often than not and are on their plant page...   They Terk Err Jerbs (talk) 09:03, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safrole oil? 

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message: Many food additives (particularly some food colorings) are carcinogenic either in very tiny or very large quantities. Why was sassafras tea banned in the USA? Has it truly been shown to be more carcinogenic than food coloring or other commonly ingested chemicals? Are sassafras shrubs banned from being sold by nurseries? When I was young, sassafras tea was freely available and tasted delicious. David Spector (talk) 19:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really a carcinogen? 

message: Article states "It is the main ingredient in traditional root beer and sassafras root tea..."
but  states "...in 1960, everything changed. The sassafras root, a key ingredient in root beer, was ironically banned by the U.S. Food And Drug Administration because it was found to be a carcinogen. " Setenzatsu (talk) 12:32, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no contradiction in this. Note that your first quote says "traditional" which does not mean that is what is currently used.— al-Shimoni (talk) 17:41, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: replaced by artificial flavors ?

message: Deleted unsourced text stating that leaves drop when then plant can't absorb water because it is frozen in temperate zones. Leaf drop happens around the same time as other deciduous trees, usually after early changers like birch and sycamores but before late changers like oaks, all of which often happens before temps drop below freezing even at night. Treeguypgh (talk) 21:31, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted inaccurate info on leaf drop