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London Planetree (Plantanus x acerifolia)
This hybrid is the result of a cross between P. occidentalis and P. orientalis. It is sometimes listed as P. x hybrida.

 


London plane tree Platanaceae Platanus hybrida Brot. occidentalis x orientalis   symbol: PLHY3
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London Plane Tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
Long-Leafed Lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia)
Long-Leafed Lungwort (Pulmonaria longifolia 'Bertram Anderson')
Long-Leafed Yellowwood (Podocarpus henkelii)
Long-spine Hawthorn (Crataegus succulenta) ...

London plane tree leaves are generally five-lobed and, if anything, the leaf teeth are coarser and the lobes not as deeply cut as those of the California plane, ...

London planetree (Platanus X acerfolia), a popular street tree throughout the world, is a hybrid between the American sycamore and the oriental planetree (P. orientalis).

Stop 1 (LP) - London Planetree
Stop 2 (EH) - English Hawthorn
Stop 3 (LP) - London Planetree
Stop 4 (SM) - Sugar Maple
Stop 5 (NM) - Norway Maple
Stop 6 (LL) - Littleleaf Linden
Stop 7 (FEO) - Fastigiate English Oak
Stop 8 (EO) - English Oak ...

Platanus X acerifolia. London Plane Tree. Not common, not suitable for most Bermuda gardens but some at Botanical Gardens and south side of Victoria Park.
Plumbago auriculata. Blue Plumbago. Common.

Pinus virginiana Scrub Pine Pinus wallichiana Himalayan Pine Pinus wallichiana 'Zebrina' Banded Himalayan Pine (syn. 'Oculus-draconis') Platanus occidentalis American Sycamore Platanus orientalis Oriental Planetree Platanus x acerifolia London ...

The Plane which thrives best in London, or what is often called the London Plane, is not (as it used to be thought) the American or Western Plane, but the Eastern Plane or one of its forms, of which the accepted name is now acerifolia, ...

Should a gardener be looking for a sycamore tree for the landscape, a far better choice is the London Plane tree. This tree is a sycamore look-alike but it is smaller, disease resistant and more tidy.

London plane (Platanus x hispanica) responds to this treatment.
Horse chestnut (Aesculus x hippocastanum) needs to be cut to a higher point in the tree, rather than to the original pollards.

River Birch (Betula nigra)
London Planetree (Platanus x acerifolia)
American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) -variable trait, depends on cultivar
Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) ...

Platanus - Sycamore Trees
Platanus hispanica - London Plane
Platanus occidentalis - American Sycamore
Platanus orientalis - Oriental Plane
Platanus racemosa - California Sycamore
Platanus wrightii - Arizona Sycamore ...

The London plane (P. acerifolia), sometimes miscalled Oriental plane, is much planted as an ornamental shade tree in cities; it is probably a hybrid of the American and Oriental planes.

Also called Buttonwood or American planetree, the wood is used for furniture, butcher blocks and flooring. The London planetree, P. x acerifolia Willd., with 2-4 fruits per stalk, is commonly planted as a shade tree in urban areas.

Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) may be confused with some other weedy introduced species including box elder (Acer negundo ), Japanese maple (Acer palmatum ), Norway maple (Acer platanoides) and London plane (Platanus x acerifolia).

The fall foliage color is drab yellow-brown, but the exfoliating patchy bark mottles the trunks handsomely, especially in severe winter cold. The most famous of these hybrid clones is the one called London Plane, ...

Bloodgood London Plane Tree [English]: Platanus x acerifolia 'Bloodgood'
Bloodgrass [English]: Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'
Bloodgrass [English]: Panicum isachne
Bloodleaf [English]: Iresine herbstii ...

Hybrid or European (London Planetree) Platanus × acerifolia
Taiwania
Taiwania Taiwania cryptomerioides
Tamarack
Tamarack, Eastern Larch, American Larch Larix laricina
Tamarix
Athel (Athl, Tarfa) Tamarix aphylla
Small-flowered Tamarix parviflora ...

See also: Plane, Sycamore, Green, May, Planetree

Plants Lombardy PoplarLondon planetree

 
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