The purpose of this work was to evaluate the behaviour of the plane tree (Platanus acerifolia) to micropropagation. Four clones (12-MS, C1, S-PM, 21-MS) obtained from plants selected in the city of ...

Lethal stem and root cankers were observed in nursery-grown Platanus × acerifolia trees in Rome. Externally, canker lesions appeared as bluish or blackish areas starting from the stem base and ...

It has long been a mystery in New York just how the London plane (Platanus acerifolia) came to be the city's most abundant shade tree. With its exfoliating, mottled bark and cotton-ball fruit, the ...

Q. Our sycamore tree always looks fine in spring, but many of the leaves become disfigured, turn brown and fall prematurely by summer. Other sycamore trees in our neighborhood do the same thing, too.

A careful inspection and analysis by staff members of the Arnold Arboretum has established the identity of the trees along Memorial Drive that are to be moved for underpasses as "a hybrid of long ...

Leaves – deciduous, simple, 3-5 shallow lobes, sinuses and margins are serrated, petioles are enlarged at base to enclose bud, stipules are leaflike. Twigs – leaf scar surrounds bud, stipule scar ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. A scan of stream and river banks in this part of the ...

Among winter’s dark, craggy silhouettes, one tree stands pure white against a blue sky with branches like bleached bones. Visible from a distance, the sycamore commands the dreary landscape by ...