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From Romeyn Beck Hough's fourteen-volume work The American Woods, a collection of over 1000 paper-thin wood samples representing more than 350 varieties of North American tree. The American sycamore is able to endure a big city environment and was formerly extensively planted as a shade tree, [10] but due to the defacing effects of anthracnose ...
The Buttonball Tree is an exceptionally large American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) located in Sunderland, Massachusetts.. Though the nickname "buttonball" has been used for all like trees, this tree retained the name, mainly because of its pure size and popularity.
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore) [128] Used mainly for pulp and for rough, sturdy timber, including in butcher blocks. It is used for soil regeneration, but thrives best in rich alluvial soils. Sometimes confused with other Platanus trees or with the sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus). Uses: timber; landscaping. [129] All
Platanus rzedowskii, commonly known as Rzedowski's plane tree, Rzedowski's sycamore, [1] Sicómoro de la Sierra Madre Occidental, or the Sierra Madre Occidental sycamore, [2] is a species of Platanus in the family Platanaceae. It was described by Jackie M. Poole in 2003 with the name attributed to Kevin C. Nixon. [1]
A short informal account concentrating on the North American species; A developmental and evolutionary analysis of embryology in Platanus (Platanaceae), a basal eudicot, abstract of article by Sandra K. Floyd et al. in American Journal of Botany, 1999;86:1523–1537. Photos, measurements, and location details of large plane trees worldwide
Pinchot Sycamore (May 2015) The Pinchot Sycamore is a large American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) in Simsbury, Connecticut.It is the largest tree in Connecticut. When measured by the Connecticut Botanical Society in 2016, the Pinchot Sycamore's trunk was over 28 feet (8.5 m) around and 100 feet (30 m) tall, with an average canopy diameter of 121 feet (37 m).
A nature-loving artist has painted the Sycamore Gap tree in different settings on used tea bags to mark a year since it was felled. The much photographed and visited sycamore was cut down ...
The Webster Sycamore (alternatively known as the Webster Springs Sycamore and the Big Sycamore Tree) was an American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Long recognized for its size, the Webster Sycamore was the largest living American sycamore tree in West Virginia until its felling in 2010.