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Sassafras
🗓 Season: August · September
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Dark blue-black berries on red stalks. Edible but rarely used. The bark and roots (root beer flavour) contain safrole — regulated. Young leaves can be dried and ground as filé powder for gumbo.
The boat ramp at Poxono Island was the former Camp Cowaw (BSA) waterfront area. There is a blocked path to walk up the mountain to the old camp. Wild edibles abound, as do game (bear, deer, raccoon, possum, squirrel, rabbit, etc. and in the Delaware River, native trout, muskees, large and small mouth bass, turtles, geese, ducks, and on the Pennsylvania side, a wild turkey herd.
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