SYCAMORE,BUTTONWOOD, PLANE * PLATANUS
- Deciduous, ornamental trees with handsome
dense foliage, often planted as shade and street trees.
- From time immemorial, the oriental plane, which was well
known to the ancient Greek writers, has been famous for the large
size it attains, trunks of 30 ft. in diameter and more are reported
to exist, and has been planted as a shade tree in western Asia
and southern Europe. Today, it is still one of the favorite street
trees throughout the temperate regions of Europe. It has also
been recognized in this country as oneof the best street trees,
even to be preferred to the native plane, which, unfortunately,
suffers from attacks of a fungus, while the oriental is not injured
by it.
- Plane trees stand pruning, even severe pruning, well. They
grow best in a deep and rich moist soil.
- Varieties grow 80 to 100 ft.