| Description | Bloodgood London Plane Tree (Plantanus x acerfolia) is a large tree with ornamental olive green to cream exfoliating bark. |
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| Pronunciation | (PLAT-uh-nus)(a-ser-ih-FOLE-ee-uh) |
| Plant Type | Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4b |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, tolerates draught |
| Soil & Site | average, toleates compact soils |
| Flowers | The flowers are monoecious, with yellowish male flowers and reddish female flowers. They grow in clusters and appear in the spring. |
| Fruit | The female flower produces a fruiting ball (sycarp) that ripens to brown in the fall. |
| Leaves | Alternate, large simple leaves, 3-5 large lobes, triangular in shape, green foliage, yellow to brown fall color, |
| Stems | olive green to cream exfoliating bark |
| Dimensions | 50 by 40 in 20-30 years, 70 feet tall by equal sapread in maturitiy, pyramdial when young becoming rounded |
| Maintenance | This cultivar has a good resistance to anthracnose, a Plantanus attacking fungus. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Originated in James Bloodgoods Nursery Long Island, New York, USA prior to 1900. Bloodgood is a result of a cross between P. orientalis and P. occidentalis |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org), #270-North Carolina Extention Gardener Tool Box (https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants) |
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