| Scientific Name: | Acer pseudoplatanus |
| Common Name: | sycamore maple |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Shade tree, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Obovate, Orbicular, Crenate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Schizocarp, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmate with 3-5 acute-tipped serrate-crenate lobes, obovate-orbicular, most 9-15cm long x 7-15cm wide, greenish-white undersides; florets open after leaves, in pendulous thyrse 7-11cm long; schizocarps 3-4cm wide, thick edge of wings at wings at 70-90 degree angle (horse shoe shaped when immature), samaras 3-5cm long (sometimes 3 per schizocarp). Winter ID: twigs round, brown; lenticels whitish; buds opposite, green, broadly ovoid, 6-8 scales, leaf scars crescent shaped with 3 large round bundle scars. | |