London Plane Bonsai

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London plane bonsai. 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. Airmont ny zone 6 7. Would these make good bonsai. Like all sycamores the london plane has bark that peels away in irregular patches to show creamy whitish green inner bark.
Le platane the london plane tree is a hybrid between the western plane platanus occidentalis and the eastern plane platanus orientalis. After i sent marc the first email i sent another as i discovered london plane is also known as sycamore. Fri jun 06 2008 12 16 pm. The bark is usually pale grey green smooth and exfoliating or buff brown and not exfoliating.
I found a tree that i thought was a american sycamore but one of my friends said it. 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. This hybrid tree resulted from a cross between two sycamore species. Thu jun 05 2008 12 39 pm.
They are resistant to anthracnose tolerate smog and can take heavy pruning. 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. London plane trees with their maple like leaves are an excellent choice for street park and lawn plantings. Kdodds greener thumb posts.
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. This was the only thing i found about plane tree bonsai. Tolerates a variety of soil conditions from wet dry to acid and alkaline. The bark has an interesting cream to olive color that appears bright during the winter.
The london planetree platanus acerifolia is a very large deciduous tree that is quite resilient in urban conditions. Fri mar 07 2008 12 07 am location. There are several species of plane tree but they are all tall and attractive and desirable to have in yards. The leaves are thick and stiff textured broad palmately lobed superficially maple like the leaf blade 10 20 cm 4 8 in.
I work in a park in bathurst nsw australia and i have a project to name the trees. The london planetree is a very popular shade tree. Youtube plane tree collecting but the scenery is beautiful. I know the leaves are just as big as car tyres but might they shrink.
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.