Directory of Platanus Resources

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The genus Platanus L. contains around 8 species of trees, in the north temperate regions, and extending south to Indochina. Common names in English are plane, sycamore, in other languages platane, chenar.

Subcategories

• Platanus acerifolia
• Platanus occidentalis
• Platanus orientalis

Resources in This Category

• "A developmental and evolutionary analysis of embryology in Platanus (platanaceae)"

  http://www.amjbot.org/content/86/11/1523.full
  A study of embryo development in the genus, but based on P. racemosa, including the implications for other genera. Floyd and others, American Journal of Botany

• Checklist of Cultivated Platanus

  http://joa.isa-arbor.com/request.asp?JournalID=1&ArticleID=2076&Type=2
  A brief discussion, and a list of the published names of Platanus in cultivation, with brief notes about each form. By Santamour and McArdle.

• Plane Trees

  http://www.aranya.co.uk/planes/
  Descriptions of plane trees (Platanus) grown in London, UK.

• Platanus - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus
  Short article, includes list of species, cultivated varieties, and some photographs. Links to species specific articles.

• Platanus hybrida: London Plane Tree

  http://www.dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=307
  Tree identification fact sheet with photos of the leaf, flower, fruit, twig, bark and form.

• Platanus Information from NPGS/GRIN

  http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9494
  Photographs of seed and fruit, drawing of an embryo.

• Platanus racemosa: California Sycamore

  http://www.dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=473
  Tree identification fact sheet with photos of the leaf, flower, fruit, twig, bark and form.

 

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