Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain

December 15, 2024 00:04:20
Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain

Dec 15 2024 | 00:04:20

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Show Notes

I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for  those episodes. “I could look at sycamores all day. They remind me of when I was a kid in Kentucky and the huge sycamores we climbed along the creeks back there. Some big ones were hollow and you could go in them! It was a different species…Platanus occidentalis…this one is P. wrightii.” “Sycamores are the genus Platanus, which was the old Greek name for the tree that is the species Platanus orientalis. There are five or six species found…

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