Platanus
| Platanus, the plane tree, or sycamore, is a large woody deciduous tree of the Northern Hemisphere which today has a disjunct distribution in the southwestern United States and Mexico, eastern Mediterranean, eastern North America, and Southeast Asia. The trees occupy riparian and flood plain habitats and have bark that peels off in small plates, leaving a characteristic white trunk. Here you see a habit shot (left) and lobed leaves (right) of Platanus wrightii, the Arizona sycamore, photographed in central Arizona. |
| Click to look at: pistillate infructescences, staminate infructestences, leaves (1), (2), (3), and seedlings of a fossil sycamore from Joffre Bridge, a Paleocene locality in central Alberta, western Canada. This locality is also the site of Joffrea, in the Cercidiphyllaceae. |
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| Hoffman, GL 1995. Paleobotany and paleoecology of the Joffre
Bridge Roadcut locality (Paleocene), Red
Deer, Alberta. Master's thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. |
| Pigg, KB and RA Stockey. 1991. Platanaceous plants from the Paleocene
of Alberta, Canada. Rev. Palaeobot.
Palynol. 70: 125-146. |