Platanus occidentalis

Sycamore, American Sycamore

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Family: Platanaceae (Planetree family)

Mid-Atlantic bloom time: April - May
Mid-Atlantic fruit ripe: September - November

Sycamore has a characteristic mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses, leaving the surface mottled and gray, greenish-white and brown.

20 April 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	30 July 2014 Silver Lake Regional Park, Haymarket, VA	20 June 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA	20 June 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA
20 June 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (bark on medium age tree, typical of the middle of the tree)	20 April 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (bark transistion zone)	20 April 2021 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (bark at base of tree)	20 April 2019 Leopold's Preserve, Haymarket, VA (pistillate flower cluster in center of photo)
20 June 2014 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (ripening fruit)	12 March 2015 Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (lingering seed pods)	28 December 2016 North Fork Wetlands Bank, Haymarket, VA (seed cluster)	28 December 2016 North Fork Wetlands Bank, Haymarket, VA (seed cluster broken open)

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