Tried to get a closeup of the leaves on a Sassafras tree that's growing in my yard. Sassafras was a common ingredient in Root beer, Sarsaparilla and many other soft drinks, until it was claimed to be carcinogenic. These trees are also famous for their leaves, of which there are usually three different types on the same tree: You got your typical football-shaped leaves, three lobed(as seen here), and mitten-shaped.

~Excerpts from Wikipedia~
"it has particular culinary significance, being featured in distinct national foods such as traditional root beer, file powder, and Louisiana Creole cuisine. Sassafras albidum was an important plant to many Native Americans of the southeastern United States and was used for many purposes, including culinary and medicinal purposes, before the European colonization of North America. Its significance for Native Americans is also magnified, as the European quest for sassafras as a commodity for export brought Europeans into closer contact with Native Americans during the early years of European settlement in the 16th and 17th centuries, in Florida, Virginia, and other parts of the Northeast."

"Sassafras roots are used to make traditional root beer, although they were banned for commercially mass-produced foods and drugs by the FDA in 1960. Laboratory animals that were given oral doses of sassafras tea or sassafras oil that contained large doses of safrole developed permanent liver damage or various types of cancer. Along with commercially available Sarsaparilla, sassafras remains an ingredient in use among hobby or microbrew enthusiasts. While sassafras is no longer used in commercially produced root beer and is sometimes substituted with artificial flavors, natural extracts with the safrole distilled and removed are available. Most commercial root beers have replaced the sassafras extract with methyl salycitate, the ester found in wintergreen and black birch (Betula lenta) bark."