Sycamore - the only member of the family sycamore.The race has no more than 10 species that inhabit from Indochina to the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North America.They are the ancient Romans, Greeks and Persians were distributed after the colonization of new territories.Growing trees were an integral part of the development of the conquered territories.A plane tree was considered the most beautiful plants of the East.
In our country you can find only one wild species - plane trees, a tree that is found in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.But if you happen to visit in Armenia, visit Tsavsky Reserve, which still sycamores.East sycamore or plane - tree belonging to endangered species.He has a strong, but at the same time light and dense wood, which is a valuable ornamental material.It is reddish-brown or golden color, easily tochitsya well bends and takes the necessary form.
Chinar - photophilous tree, large, deciduous.It can reach up to 2 thousand years and reach 50 meters in height.He branchy broad crown, light gray smooth bark and large palmate-lobed leaves.Since the trunk rather quickly increased in sycamore tree (pictured above) detaches the bark, which are shed layers and exposes the deeper areas of light green color.At this time, the trunk sycamore becomes a very beautiful picture.And precisely because of this property it has received in the Russian nickname "shameless."
many old trees of this kind in its trunk has a hollow, which can hide several people.Not far from the town Urgut who is from Samarkand to 40 km, is located the sacred grove of plane trees.This Piedmont Hollow completely covered with the shadow of the millennial trees.Under the roots of one of the plane trees is a natural cave.The base of a tree is its ceiling.Today, part of the walls of the cave reinforced brickwork, and its entrance was closed carved doors.Special caretaker opens it only for the visitors.In the old days in this cave to retire for the pious conversations and joint prayers.
also many trees are long-lived in Azerbaijan, its territory grows about 1,000 majestic giants.And in one of the district centers of the country has a unique teahouse.The three-story building is located under the cover of a huge sycamore tree which covers it with his canopy.In Uzbekistan there are 800-year-old plane trees, the tree has a trunk circumference of 15 meters.Once upon a time there was a hollow in his village school, in the Civil War there was the headquarters of the division, and then the village council and the office of the cooperative.Tajikistan also has its own attraction.In one of his villages rising 50-meter-long plane tree that has a trunk circumference of 20 meters.But in the hollow of a huge tree located creamery.
rapid growth of plane trees makes them promising for growing plantations for the purpose of getting raw materials for the production of biofuels, wood-based panels.And thanks to its decoration, these trees have been used successfully in the greening of urban areas.Of course, this only occurs where a favorable climate for them, since the plane is no different high winter hardiness.
