| Scientific Name: | Platanus orientalis |
| Common Name: | oriental plane tree, oriental sycamore |
| Family Name: | Platanaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Columnar, Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Shade tree, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Dentate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Spike, Green, Red, May |
| Fruit: | Achene, Multiple fruit, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate, 12-27cm long x 10-25cm wide, maple-like with 5 major lobes (sinuses and teeth more pronounced than in London plane); female flowers green-red, in pendulous ~2cm round spheres, usually 3-4(-6) per peduncle. Winter ID: bark exfoliating, looks like army camouflage; branches zig-zag; achenes clustered to form 2-3cm wide fuzzy ball, most in groups 3-4(-6); buds red, smooth, 5mm long. | |