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Definition of Platanus racemosa

1. Noun. Tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platanus Racemosa

Literary usage of Platanus racemosa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"... 12 (or 20) inches broad, 3^2 to 9 (or 13) inches long, parted into ,3 to 5 broad spreading fingers \ Fig. 100. WESTERN SYCAMORE (Platanus racemosa Nutt. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Platanus racemosa. (XH) plates, gives the tree a very characteristic appearance in winter, while in summer the plane-tree, with its large head of dense ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and the Arizona sycamore (Platanus Wrightii). The name plane tree is commonly given in Scotland to the sycamore or great ..."

4. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"... 12 (or 20) inches broad, 3^2 to 9 (or 13) inches long, parted into ,3 to 5 broad spreading fingers \ Fig. 100. WESTERN SYCAMORE (Platanus racemosa Nutt. ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Platanus racemosa. (XH) plates, gives the tree a very characteristic appearance in winter, while in summer the plane-tree, with its large head of dense ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and the Arizona sycamore (Platanus Wrightii). The name plane tree is commonly given in Scotland to the sycamore or great ..."

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