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London Plane🌳
Platanus × acerifolia
モミジバスズカケノキ（プラタナス）
A deciduous tall tree widely planted as a street tree throughout Japan. Distinguished by bark that peels in a camouflage-like pattern. A hybrid originating in Europe, commonly known in Japan as 'platanus' (London plane tree).
Identification Points
- ✓Bark peels in a patchy mosaic of white, green, and brown
- ✓Leaves are large and palmately lobed, resembling maple leaves
- ✓Spherical fruit clusters hang on long stalks
Habitat
Streets, parks
Season
Year-round (leaves from spring to autumn)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Pinnate
Leaf dissection
Dissected
Leaf shape
Palmate
Growth form
Tree
Evergreen/Deciduous
Deciduous
Petal fusion
Free
Habitat
Roadside
Leaf margin
Dentate
Stipules
Present
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Ovary position
Superior
Plant sex
Monoecious
Stamen count
3-4
Phylogenetic Positionスズカケノキ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Proteales > Platanaceae
Divergence Era
Cretaceous (approx. 100 million years ago onward)
Sources & References
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