{"id":10961,"date":"2020-04-25T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2020-04-25T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:26:32","slug":"sassafras-albidum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/sassafras-albidum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"sassafras albidum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10962\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200423-flowering-sassafras-bw.jpg\" alt=\"sassafras flowers\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200423-flowering-sassafras-bw.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200423-flowering-sassafras-bw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200423-flowering-sassafras-bw-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200423-flowering-sassafras-bw-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aromatic smell of sassafras was described by early European settlers arriving in North America. According to one legend, Christopher Columbus found North America because he could smell the scent of sassafras<br \/>Sassafras albidum was a well-used plant by Native Americans in what is now the southeastern United States prior to the European colonization. The Choctaw word for sassafras is &#8220;Kvfi.&#8221; It was known as &#8220;Winauk&#8221; in Delaware and Virginia and is called &#8220;Pauane&#8221; by the Timuca.<br \/>Some Native American tribes used the leaves of sassafras to treat wounds by rubbing the leaves directly into a wound, and used different parts of the plant for many medicinal purposes such as treating acne, urinary disorders, and sicknesses that increased body temperature, such as high fevers. They also used the bark as a dye, and as a flavoring.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sassafras_albidum\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gray Coale and <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/sassafras-albidum\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sassafras Albidum<\/a> at Swan Point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray Coale and Sassafras Albidum at Swan Point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"sasAccording to one legend, Christopher Columbus found North America because he could smell the scent of sassafras.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10964,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}