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In his fine book, This Green World, Rutherford Platt makes a strong statement about the constancy of leaf designs; they may vary in size but the design is always the same. Then, there is the sassafras. Under an excellent illustration, the caption in this . book reads: “A vivid exception tp constancy of leaf design is seen in sassafras.”
Three shapes are clearly shown: a simple leaf with no lobes, a mitten-shaped leaf with one lobe, and third leaf shape, with three distinct lobes, the middle lobe being a bit longer than the two on the side. There is nothing quite like this in other trees: three distinctly different shaped leaves on the same tree. Mulberries display different shapes but their leaves have tiny teeth — like a saw — on .the outer edges.
What fun I had when taking students of all ages on botany field trips. I explained the leaf with three lobes as ‘bapa-fras,’ the mitten shaped leaf was ‘momma-fras’ and then there was little ‘sassyfras.’ Somehow it always worked and the name of the free was remembered. One Madeira student always signed her post-graduation letters to me as ‘little Sassy-fras.’
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