🌿 Family

Platanaceae

6 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Proteales › Platanaceae

Platanus mexicana, the Mexican sycamore, is a deciduous tree identifiable by distinct leaf color and texture traits.

Platanus occidentalis, the American sycamore, is a large North American hardwood noted for mottled peeling bark and many ecological and human uses.

Platanus racemosa is a large native western North American deciduous tree grown for shade and used for wood and traditional medicine.

Arizona sycamore (Platanus wrightii) is a large deciduous sycamore native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Platanus orientalis L. (oriental plane) is a large deciduous tree valued for shade, timber, and other human uses.

Platanus rzedowskii is a plane tree species endemic to northeastern Mexico, currently used ornamentally and for commercial timber.

Related Families

Proteaceae 477 species Nelumbonaceae 2 species Sabiaceae 2 species

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