Friday, July 25, 2008

American Sycamore

The American Sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, is a extremely adaptable and rocky tree. American Sycamore trees are quick growing, large shade trees with a huge trunk and a have a wide-spreading open crown of big crooked branches. This deciduous tree has a smooth roughly white bark when mature. The bark will flake off in unequal thin pieces which give American Sycamore trees an imposing mottled appearance.

Sycamore trees have light green tinted leaves that turn golden in the fall as long as contrasting fall color. The American Sycamore has reasonable water supplies and exhibits a moderate tolerance to salt and alkali soils. It is a very well-liked city tree for unfavorable urban conditions and soils.

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