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The Sycamore has big leaves that can measure nine inches across. Seven inches is more usual. Sycamore leaves are among the last to acquire full size in spring and among the last to detach themselves in autumn and fall to the ground.
The fruits, a term botanists always use for seeds, are perfect cylinders, about one inch across. Each ball contains hundreds of tiny seeds, each equiped to be carried considerable distance by the wind. So small a start for such a potentially, massive tree. Everything about the Sycamore seems to me grand or to have the potential for grandness.
Reports from readers of splendid examples of Platanus occidentalis would be welcome. How reassuring for us to know of these specimens in our area. We would be cheered a bit with this information when we constantly hear, read about, and see setbacks in efforts to retain, in Aldo Leopold’s words, “things natural, wild and free.”
Editor's Note: Mr. Trott welcomes reader response. He can be reached by writing to P.O. Box 515, Flint Hill, VA 22627.
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