‘Columbia’ Planetree

Platanus x acerifolia 'Columbia'

Form: Pyramidal, developing an open wide spreading crown with age.

Size: 70 to 100 feet tall spreading 50 to 60 feet tall.

Zone: 4 to 9.

Leaves: Deciduous. Large palmatum leaf. Light to dark green with a downy gray underside.

Bark: Olive green to light gray. Exfoliating with age.

Fruit: Rounded syncarp.

Flowers: N/A

Growth Rate: Medium.

Description: This selection was cultivated for Anthracnose resistance. Exfoliating bark, large clean summer foliage, and a stark white architecturally interesting branching structure are the positive contributions from this tree.

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‘Bloodgood’ London Planetree

Platanus x acerifolia 'Bloodgood'

Form: Pyramidal, developing an open wide spreading crown with age.

Size: 70 to 100 feet tall spreading 50 to 60 feet tall.

Zone: 4 to 9.

Leaves: Deciduous. Large palmatum leaf. Light to dark green with a downy gray underside.

Bark: Olive green to light gray. Exfoliating with age.

Fruit: Rounded syncarp.

Flowers: N/A

Growth Rate: Medium.

Description: Pyramidal in youth, it develops an outstretched and spreading shape at maturity. Exfoliating bark is very attractive and gives way to a creamy bone-white trunk.  

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Yarwood sycamore

 

Platanus x Acerifolia

Form: Broadly pyramidal tree
Size: 70’ tall, 60’ wide
Zone: 6-9
Leaves: dark green leaves, with a yellow fall color.
Bark: The bark exfoliates at an early age, creating very attractive patches that expose the creamy layers of greens, browns and yellow-white.
Fruit: Rounded, syncarp of achenes, bristly. Borne singly.
Growth Rate: Medium-Fast
Description: Tight pyramidal outline, mildew resistant, free of diseases, predominates the other Planetree cultivars.