Leaves Once Used in Root Beer and Creole Cuisine

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from New York, New York!, Group 368, Puzzle 3 (Fashion Week).

Question is: Leaves Once Used in Root Beer and Creole Cuisine

and the answer is: SASSAFRAS

Word Meaning:

SASSAFRAS — (countable) A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the eastern United States and Asia having mitten-shaped leaves and red, aromatic heartwood.

Definitions from Wiktionary.

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