Description
Platanus orientalis Linn. (Platanus orientalis Linn.), also known as Platanus orientalis and Kumarajiva, is a deciduous tree. It is the parent of Platanus orientalis. It can reach 30 meters in height. The street tree is known as the "king of the street tree".
The crown is broad and bell-shaped; the dry bark is gray-brown to off-white, exfoliating in flakes. The young branches and leaves are densely covered with brown stellate hairs. The leaves are palmately 5-7 lobed, deeply lobed to the middle, the lobes are longer than wide, the leaf base is broadly wedge-shaped or truncated, the leaf margin has teeth, palm-shaped veins; the stipules are round-necked. The inflorescence is capitate, yellow-green. Most of the nuts gather in the whole leaf ball, 3-6 balls in a bunch, the persistent style is long, bristles, and the fruit stalk is long and drooping.
Like light, like humid and warm climate, more cold-resistant. Cultivated in many places in Eurasia
