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This is the Plane Tree we see from our house looking over to the park. Right through April we have been patiently (? impatiently) waiting... to see it change to Autumn colours; but this year it seems to be slow in coming. You can just see faint Autumn colours starting to come in this 'end of April' photo and every day there is a little more. It is already a third of the way though autumn, so it seems slow in brightening this year. (All photographs copyrighted and the property of Joy Murray, not to be used without permission) |
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The Leaves are a most perfect shape, I prefer them even to a beautiful Maple leaf! The younger kids have enjoyed collecting the few leaves that have turned/fallen. We can't wait for more. Tim has pressed leaves too for making cards.
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We have 6 Plane Trees in our park, at least I think so... two confuse us -the leaves bunch together differently and each leaf has only 3 prongs as opposed to 5???? See below but it has the same seeds pods, so is it a Plane Tree? Help I don't know....but we think so.
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Judging from this wiki quote, you can get three 3 - 5 prongs or lobes on Plane Trees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_plane "Leaves: Alternate, palmatelycordate or wedge-shaped at base, decurrent on the petiole. Three to five-lobed by broad shallow sinuses rounded in the bottom; lobes acuminate, toothed, or entire, or undulate. They come out of the bud plicate, pale green coated with pale tomentum; when full grown are bright yellow green above, paler beneath. In autumn they turn brown and wither before falling. Petioles long, abruptly enlarged at base and inclosing the buds. Stipules with spreading, toothed borders, conspicuous on young shoots, caducous." nerved, broadly-ovate or orbicular, four to nine inches long, truncate or
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| The seed pods presently on the tree are soft enough but give them a few months on the ground and they become hard and prickly - 'eina,' as we would say in South Africa (ouch!)(All photographs copyrighted and the property of Joy Murray, not to be used without permission) |
If you look carefully you can see seeds in the pods and if you wave vigorously they will come out...actually we need to experiment there a bit as a fine powdery something comes out- we will have to take a closer look at that another time.
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Perhaps my love for 'my Planes in the park' is a bit too romantic....they may after all be the case of my sinus issues that seem worse since we have moved here. see http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1215645.htm
But who after all, can resist watching Autumn leaves grow brilliant and fall?
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| This is our most brilliant tree in the park at present, one side is brightly coloured the other side still green, why? More about it later! (All photographs copyrighted and the property of Joy Murray, not to be used without permission) |
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