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plane tree

, plane
any tree of the genus Platanus, having ball-shaped heads of fruits and leaves with pointed lobes: family Platanaceae. The hybrid P. × acerifolia (London plane) is frequently planted in towns
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To look And see the plane tree, its crooked branches brush the ground, rear In its age, older than any of us, destined, if all goes well with it, To outlast us all.
Platanus orientalis (Chinar, Plane tree) belongs to family Platanacea.
"Geneva is part of a cultural region that is French, hence it is not surprising that it espouses a French style as regards plane trees."
Rightfully at center stage, Abu'l Hasan's plane tree is rooted in the bottom edge, while its canopy brushes the top of the composition.
The Plane Tree of Kos is a direct descendant of the one under which Hippocrates - the father of medicine - reportedly taught in 500BC.
| Ray Egan, aka John Bull, and the London plane tree on Broad Street, which is thought to have been planted in 1876 VETERAN campaigner Ray Egan - the man who protests under the name John Bull - has taken a trunk call to save one of the region's best-known trees.
A branched, 7-foot-tall, 1-year-old London plane tree might cost $18 retail.
The plans have been drawn up following last year's controversy over the felling of a decades-old mature London Plane tree during the redevelopment of Centenary Square and Broad Street.
The Erskine House Tree, Belfast City Hospital/Queen's University Belfast, is a descendent of the "Plane Tree of Kos", Greece, under which Hippocrates, the father of medicine, reputedly taught in 500 BC.
Then there's the old Black Mulberry in Spon Street, our oldest plane tree is in Coat of Arms Bridge Road and look out for the Indian bean opposite the police station and the Cannon Hill oak.
ANSWERS: 1 Worzel Gummidge; 2 Switzerland; 3 Leonid Brezhnev; 4 Montserrat; 5 Mayonnaise; 6 Receding jaws; 7 Alderney; 8 Margaret Thatcher; 9 Channel 5; 10 The plane tree. 8.
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