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SASSAFRAS

Raul McCai

Raul McCai

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Remember this bowl it was maybe the second or third effort to make a bowl
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It was made from mystery wood found on side of road.
There were lots of guesses what species it might be.
I remember saying it smelled of camphor or mint
Well the mystery is solved it is sassafras.
 
Interesting. I have never seen sassafras larger than a sapling. When I was a farm boy in SW Missouri, it mostly was found as brush in fence rows along the roads. I guess it has grown some in the last many years.
 
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