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PLATANUS HYBRIDA
-English: Plane Tree
-Spanish: Plátano de Sombra
-Estonian: Bannani Vari
-Portuguese:Plátano Americano
-Albanian: Hije banane
-Turkish: Banana´s gölge
It is a tree. It can grow to 35m and live for
several hundred years. The bark is olive green to
grey, with large scaly plates that peel off to
reveal a creamy bark beneath. Young twigs are
green-brown. London plane is planted for its
ability to adapt to urban conditions and its
resistance to pollution.
Leaves
Sycamore-like leaves are
leathery and thick, with
five triangular lobes.
They turn a rich orange-
yellow before falling in
autumn .
Flowers
Leaves
Fruit
London
plane
is
monoecious, meaning After pollination by wind,
female flowers develop into
the ball-shaped male
and female flowers spiky
are
found
on
the
same tree, although
on different stems.
fruits,
comprising
a
dense cluster of seeds with
stiff hairs, which aid dispersal
by wind. The fruits slowly
break up over winter to
release their seeds.