London Plane Bonsai

Speaking of leaf reduction.

London plane bonsai. The bark has an interesting cream to olive color that appears bright during the winter. This was the only thing i found about plane tree bonsai. The london planetree is a very popular shade tree. After i sent marc the first email i sent another as i discovered london plane is also known as sycamore.

The leaves are thick and stiff textured broad palmately lobed superficially maple like the leaf blade 10 20 cm 4 8 in. In episode 21 how to collect material for bonsai series of mediterranean bonsai we visit this amazing landscape of lesvos island in greece and we repotting and create a platanus bonsai tree we. Tolerates a variety of soil conditions from wet dry to acid and alkaline. Perhaps their most interesting attribute is their highly attractive patchy bark pattern which ranges in color from creamy white to light gray to light green.

It is a large tree reaching heights of 70 to 100 feet by 65 to 80 feet wide. Kdodds greener thumb posts. Platanus occidentalis american sycamore and platanus orientalis oriental plane. I found a tree that i thought was a american sycamore but one of my friends said it.

Youtube plane tree collecting but the scenery is beautiful. They are resistant to anthracnose tolerate smog and can take heavy pruning. There are several species of plane tree but they are all tall and attractive and desirable to have in yards. Le platane the london plane tree is a hybrid between the western plane platanus occidentalis and the eastern plane platanus orientalis.

Fri mar 07 2008 12 07 am location. Would these make good bonsai. The london plane tree the plane tree or just the sycamore are all names for the large elegant shade and landscape trees most well known for scaly multi colored bark. It is long and it takes about 5 minutes before the collector finds a tree to dig.

Thu jun 05 2008 12 39 pm. I want to make a london plane bonsai tree to go with my horse chestnut and english yew thanks for the advice i ll try that. The london planetree platanus acerifolia is a very large deciduous tree that is quite resilient in urban conditions. The london plane is a large deciduous tree growing 20 30 m 66 98 ft exceptionally over 40 m 131 ft tall with a trunk up to 3 m 10 ft or more in circumference.

I know the leaves are just as big as car tyres but might they shrink. Fri jun 06 2008 12 16 pm. London plane trees with their maple like leaves are an excellent choice for street park and lawn plantings. The bark is usually pale grey green smooth and exfoliating or buff brown and not exfoliating.

This hybrid tree resulted from a cross between two sycamore species.