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Fragrant Sassafras Shade Tree
Fragrant Sassafras Shade Tree
Ornamental and Aromatic

  (2 customer reviews)

Mitten-shaped leaves smell like a fragrant combination of vanilla and orange. (The roots are used commercially for distilling perfume and root beer!) Spectacular color in fall--yellow-to-orange, scarlet-to-purple foliage. Grows 30-60 feet tall.

Gurney’s trees are shipped as dormant bareroot stock that leafs out into handsome, healthy specimens that do our lawn and landscape proud.

Bareroot. Zones: 4-9.
Buying Options
Fragrant Sassafras Shade Tree - 3-4 Feet
08791 - For each offer ordered, get 1 tree.
Price: 1 to 2 - $14.95
3 or more - $13.45
Quantity:
Fragrant Sassafras Shade Tree - 4-5 Feet
08790 - For each offer ordered, get 1 tree.
Price: 1 to 2 - $19.95
3 or more - $17.95
Quantity:
Product Details
Zones: 4 - 9 (-20° F.)
Height: 30-60'
Spacing: 25-30'
Depth: at stain on trunk
Spread: 25-40'
Sun/Shade: full sun to light shade
Color: yellow
Foliage: mitten shaped or 3 lobed: 3-4" long 2-4" wide-shade of yellow to deep orange to scarlet to purple
Blooms: spring
Fruit: 1/2" drupe-dark blue
Comments: SPECTACULAR YELLOW TO ORANGE AND SCARLET TO PURPLE FALL FOLIAGE. THE BARK OF THE ROOTS COMMONLY MAKES SASSAFRAS TEA; THE OIL FROM THE SASSAFRAS IS EXTRACTED FROM THE ROOTS. PLANT IN A PERMANENT LOCATION, AS IT HAS A DEEP TAP ROOT AND IS OFTEN DIFFICULT TO TRANSPLANT.
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Fragrant Sassafras Shade Tree  Ships In The Spring
Unable to ship to: AE AK BC GU HI PR

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 -  Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Idaho Grower
Reviewed By: Russ Holland (Rupert, Idaho)
Bought 5 all died - 3 never got a leaf. Good soil - I don't think this is the right climate

 -  Thursday, February 01, 2007
beautiful small shrub tree for the Northeast
Reviewed By: Jeff (Kingston, NH)
It took a long time for me to get one of these Sassafras trees to take, I'd made the mistake of buying online small ones bareroot and they never took, they have a large tap root and you need to get one started in a pot and transplant carefully. I now have one that is 2-3 feet tall and it has such unusual leaves and bark and the leaves turn many shades of yellow, maroon, red and orange. I believe it should only get to be 10ft. or so where I've planted it under a few much larger trees with 5 or more hours of dappled sun, an hour or two of full sun in the afternoon. I plan on taking good care of this sassafras and hopefully it will be a beauty for the fall!


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