Platanus occidentalis

BOTANICAL NAME: Platanus occidentalis

COMMON NAME: American Sycamore; American Plant Tree; Buttonwood

FAMILY: Platanaceae

FOLIAGE: Deciduous, alternate, simple. Palmately lobed and veined with sheathing.

BUDS: Sessile, solitary, conical, with a single glossy scale; Winter bud at first hidden by base of petiole. Terminal bud absent in winter.

BARK: Bark exfoliated.

FLOWERS: globose, long-stalked heads. Flowers minute, bracted, on a rather fleshy receptacle.

FRUIT: Ripe head composed of many slender nutlets, each with a tuft of long, erect hairs at its base.