platanus

Shaws – Castle; and, with her shawl wrapped around her head, so as in some degree to conceal her features, she stood before Mr. Cargill in the doubtful light and shadow of a huge platanus tree, which formed the canopy of the arbour, and seemed to await the communication he had promised.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

In the case of the rue (_Ruta_) figured by M.A. de Jussieu [425] this splitting of one cotyledon into two is sufficiently evident, as is also the case in the sycamore (_Acer pseudo-platanus_), seedlings of which may often be met with divided cotyledons.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

It was beneath a large platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I have mentioned.

Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Frank Sidgwick

Here, the sago-palm, platanus, and tamarind, as well as the flowers and vegetables of the north of Europe, flourish so well as to promise to add permanently to the riches of this rich island.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

Among other trees that lined its banks, or adorned the precipitous cliffs, or followed the rising and falling road, were noble specimens of platanus (plane) and lofty zanzalacht, (the peepul of India;) crystal rills tumbled down the rocks, as if sparkling alive with enjoyment; then the usual poplar, walnut, evergreen oak, and a large plantation of olive: the river sometimes smiled with the fringe of oleander.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

It was beneath a huge platanus tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Naturalists tell us that this eligible site was once characterized by the graceful foliage of the pride of the American forests, the lofty plane-tree, the _platanus occidentalis_.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

We halted for a time under a wide-branching platanus at the end of a bridge, between the masonry of which grew bunches of the caper plant, then in blossom of white and lilac, and at the piers of which grew straggling blackberry brambles and wild fig-trees in picturesque irregularity, while the water bubbled and gurgled over a pebbly bed or fragments of rock.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Pittosporum. plane-tree. plan of grounds. plant diseases. plant-lice. platanus species. platycodon grandiflorum. plows.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

It is to be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus), which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897