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Sarsaparilla is a brambled, woody vine that grows up to 50 m long, with paired tendrils for climbing (often high into the rainforest canopy). It produces small flowers and black, blue, or red berry-like fruits which are eaten greedily by birds.
Or as it's more commonly known, sarsaparilla. Europeans thought it healed syphilis, and others have claimed it's a cure for herpes and gonorrhea. Assertions of STD-removal aside, sarsaparilla makes for one mighty fine beverage (just ask The Stranger). After distilling the compounds in the root of the plant and mixing them with sugar water, mid-nineteenth century chemists stumbled upon what would ultimately become the father of root beer.