[Taxacom] Platanus and Acer but none

[singhg at sify.com]

Thanks Mr Meacham and Mr Taylor: You nailed Liquidambar styracifolia correctly. I am seeing this tree for the first time, although I have read about it a lot.

   I will soon upload photographs of more plants to help me in identifying these.



Gurcharan



 meacham at berkeley.edu:



> My guess is that it is Liquidambar styraciflua (American Sweetgum) which

is native to the warmer eastern US and is commonly cultivated as a street

tree here in California.



  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sweetgum



Chris Meacham

Berkeley Phylogenomics Group

UC Berkeley









> Dear Members

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> On my first visit to California in USA, I was fascinated to see many

> plants from

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> my native place Kashmir (Platanus, Magnolia, Tragopogon,Taraxacum, etc)

> and many

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> tropical plants from my place of Work, Delhi (Gravillea,Callistemon, etc)

> ; and

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> many more unique to this part of world. One tree that struck me grows in

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> apartment complex in Sunnyvale. It was reported to me as maple, but it has

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> fruit balls hanging like Platanus. I have not been able to place this

> tree. The

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> leaves look like Acer pseudoplatinus, are totally green on both sides,

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> alternate, with no enlarged stipules; but with Platanus like single fruit

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> hanging from branches. Before I get hold of book on local flora, and

> upload

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> some photographs, can any member give me any clues about its

> identification.

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> Gurcharan Singh

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