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Platanus occidentalis L. 1753
Platanaceae
(APG IV)American sycamore, American plane tree, buttonball tree
Akzessionnummer: LG-S-069-18777
Pflanzjahr: 2008
Patenschaftstext: Für Leon Kilian * 24.02.2017
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: Southeastern North America
Platanus occidentalis L. - Accepted: Platanus occidentalis L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Platanaceae (APG III)Platanus occidentalis L. - Accepted: Platanus occidentalis L. bei BfN Checklist Flora DE; Familie: Platanaceae (APG IV)
- Flowers
- monoecious species; flowers in pendulous spherical capitate inflorescences
- Flower ecology
- wind-pollinated (anemophilous)
- Life form
- tree
- Foliage persistence
- deciduous
- Fruits
- fruit is a brown aggregate fruit of achenes (nutlets)
- Fruit ecology
- wind- and water-dispersed (anemochorous and hydrochorous)
- Soil conditions
- preferentially on moist, nutrient-rich alluvial soils or sandy loams
- Root type
- forms strongly branched root systems
- Succession type
- pioneer species
- Natural occurrence (habitat)
- stream banks, river floodplains, bottomland forests, elm-ash-cottonwood forests, cottonwood-willow woodlands, shallow swamps, disturbed sites
- Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
- temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
- Constraints according radiation (light)
- intolerant of shade
- Constraints according habitat
- very susceptible to ozone damage
- Life span
- long-lived species (over 250 years)
- Usage
- the wood is used for furniture, interior trim, panelling, boxes, pulp, particle and fibre boards, and to some extent as fuelwood
- Bark
- grey bark
Global Biodiversity Information Facilty (GBIF). Online Publication: www.gbif.org; Sullivan, J. (1994): Platanus occidentalis. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). See: https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/plaocc/all.html;
