Hasa Board with Handles

Sassafras grows in Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest and young rain forest where it may live for up to 150 - 200 years. It can grow to a height of 45 m and a metre in diameter. It is an aromatic evergreen tree; the bark, sap and oils smell like cinnamon and its leaves have a strong sarsaparilla scent. If the tree is infected with a staining fungus it produces blackheart sassafras. Blackheart is a timber with distinctive dark brown, black and even green streaks running through the wood. Blackheart is highly prized for decorative features, as no two pieces are ever the same.

Handcrafted in Tasmania.