Mock Orange Glen
“When you see our one species of PLATANACEAE, Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), you have also discovered a stream bed or at least an old stream bottom. Our Sycamores can be tall, 40 to 90 feet, and erect. More often though, they have large, crooked trunks and branches which nearly touch the ground. The bark near the base of the trunk is dull brown and quite ridged, but slightly further up the trunk, the bark is smooth and ashen in color with mottled greenish patches. The 3 to 5-lobed leaves are up to 10 inches long and 12 inches wide. The fruit is a characteristic bristly ‘button ball.’ ”
Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains

©TOLN 2002
5/17/02