The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Pistillate flowers B. Staminate flowers THE SWEET GUM (Liquidambar Styracifua) The star-shaped leaves and the corky ridges on the twigs are distinguishing characters. The flowers appear in May after theThe staminate are in racemes at the ends of the twigs. The pistillate are in heads on long stems from leaf axils A. Pistillate flowers B. Staminate flowers C. Fruit of previous year THE SYCAMORE (Platanus occidentals) The broad leaf is strongly veined and toothed, yellow gree
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . Pistillate flowers B. Staminate flowers THE SWEET GUM (Liquidambar Styracifua) The star-shaped leaves and the corky ridges on the twigs are distinguishing characters. The flowers appear in May after theThe staminate are in racemes at the ends of the twigs. The pistillate are in heads on long stems from leaf axils A. Pistillate flowers B. Staminate flowers C. Fruit of previous year THE SYCAMORE (Platanus occidentals) The broad leaf is strongly veined and toothed, yellow green with a pale lining. Its petiole has a conical hollow base whichprotects and conceals the growing bud. Winter shows the bud and its encircling leaf scar. The flowers are in heads, staminatedark red, lateral ; pistillate greenish red and terminal. They open in May with the new leaves. The stipules form a sheathwith a leaf-like frill around the top. The seed balls dangle on flexible stems. A central, bony cone is covered with dart-likeseeds, each flying away on a hairy parachute. Sycamore bark is reddish brown on the lower part of the trunk, and brokeninto small plates. Above and on the limbs it comes off in thin, irregular flakes of considerable size, exposing the pale-greenor white under-bark. This gives the tree a mottled and weird appearance, especially in winter The Sycamores Sycamore, Buttonwood, American Plane Tree (Pl
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