Gumbo filé, Sassafras
Scientific Name: Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees
Synonym: Laurus albidus, Laurus sassafras, Sassafras officinale, Sassafras sassafras, Sassafras variifolium
Family: Lauraceae ...
Gumbo
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Okra, Gumbo, Lady's Fingers
Southerners savor this heat-loving vegetable as a main dish and in gumbos. They are excellent boiled, steamed, pickled and deep fried in soups, stews and sauces.
What is called gumbo is a tasty soup made from sea food, craw fish or even chicken, which owes its thickness to plenty of okras, an African vegetable.
gumbo-limbo Burseraceae Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg. symbol: BUSI
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GUMBO-LIMBO
Bursera simaruba
General Notes
Branches droop, and resist breakage. SelecTree lists no cultivars of simaruba.
Gumbo-limbo is used as a living fencepost wherever it occurs. Haitians make drums from the trunk of gumbo-limbo.
Bursera simaruba (Gumbo-Limbo, West Indian Birch, Tourist Tree, Family: Burseraceae)
Butea monosperma, Butea frondosa, Erythrina monosperma (Flame of the Forest, Dhak, Palas, Bastard Teak, Parrot Tree, Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
White Gumbolimbo [English]: Dendropanax arboreus
White Habit Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'White Habit'
White Haiari [English]: Lonchocarpus martynii
White Hakea [English]: Hakea epiglottis ...
Okra is used as a natural thickener for soups and stews and is an essential ingredient in gumbo.
About This Plant
Okra is considered a "southern" crop because it thrive in hot weather.
Cabbage and Hamhock Gumbo
Even folks who don't care for cabbage will be won over by this flavorful gumbo. Serve it over rice or on its own as a thick, satisfying soup.
Cabbage Strudel ...
It contains over 2,000 different types of plants, including saw grass (Cladium jamaicense), mangroves (including the red, black and white mangroves), alligator flag (Thalia geniculata), strangler fig (Ficus aurea), gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), ...
Roasted and split into two portions, the soft pulpy interior of Figs may be applied as emolient poultices to gumboils, dental abscesses and other circumscribed maturating tumours.
Bursera - Bursera Trees
Bursera simaruba - Gumbo-limbo, West Indian Birch, Tourist Tree
Dacryodes - Dacryodes Trees
Dacryodes excelsa - Tabonuco ...
Bought a couple after seeing them enmass in Mexico. I have them in FULL sun all day in SE Texas gumbo soil, never misted not watered they are loving it strong & healthy many blooms ...
Grey, or gumbo soils, are often foul smelling due to the lack of air in the soil. They are almost completely impossible to work with because of their slickness. Both can be improved with the plentiful addition of organic matter.
Use
Thyme is widely used as a seasoning. Oil of thyme is used in medicines and perfumes. It goes well in gumbos, bouillabaisse, clam chowder, poultry stuffings, and slow-cooking beef dishes.
Woodruff (Sweet) (Asperula odorata) ...
The oil is used in perfumery, root beer and candy such as licorice. In Cajan cooking any respectable file gumbo will have ground sassafras leaves for the flavoring and mucilaginous properties the ingredient imparts.
The dried and ground leaves are used to make filé powder, a spice used in the making of some types of gumbo. It is also used in the manufacture of the drug ecstasy, and as such, its transport is monitored internationally.
 See also: Hibiscus, Lemon, Mallow, Aster, Verbena
  
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