sycamore tree - the most famous southern tree, and not just because you can not forget to see at least once.All literature East - prose, poetry, folklore - a full description of this magnificent plant.Giant Grows up to 50 meters, and the girth of the trunk can be 20 meters.Crohn's sprawling, dense, and spotted trunks resemble marble, as the bark is peeled continuously large scales, exposing the gray-green smooth surface.
Of 10 species of this tree are most known three: Platanus orientalis or plane tree, sycamore western and southern maple leaves (hybrid).Chinar is most common in the Caucasus, Central Asia (Pamir, Altai), in the Crimea.In Armenia, the reserve has a plane-tree grove, nestled on 50 hectares.Often there are groups of plants in river valleys, in the gorges, as well as among the mountain forests.
sycamore tree growing rapidly, over the year reaching over 2 meters, lives long, separate copies - up to 2 thousand. Years.Leaves maple shape, width 20 cm. Crown so thick that it is able to hide from the rain area of a few square meters.
Sycamore (see photo. Above) grows well in moist, well-drained soils, but moves well and alkaline soils.Interestingly, survives and is growing rapidly in large cities, are not responding to smoke, chemical emissions.Therefore it is recommended for planting in parks, along busy roads, to create a tree-lined avenues.It withstands temperatures down to -15 ° C.Fruits round, diameter 2.5 cm, containing the seeds, nuts.Propagated by seeds.Before planting, they are soaked for a day and then planted at a depth of two feet.
sycamore tree readily cultivated in the southern countries.Put him at the springs, ditches, at schools, churches.We recommend planting in the oases along the irrigation canals.
Homeland and growing area of western sycamore - North America.It is lower (height up to 35 meters), smaller seeds, bark color - light green.Not afraid of cold to -35 ° C.In the US, created several sycamore plantations.
Grove plane trees in the desert and the roads say that there were people, were at home, stood caravanserai of the Silk Road.These beautiful trees are loved and honored by the Greeks, the Persians, the peoples of Central Asia from ancient times mainly for the fact that sheltering from the heat, provide shade and coolness.The third kind - sycamore klenolistny.It grows in Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia.Cultivated for millennia.
old trees even have their own names.Scientists are trying to determine the age of some giants in the Mediterranean and Central Asia.Estimated age of over 2 thousand. Years.In Turkmenistan, near the capital, there is a giant with seven trunks.It is called the "Seven Brothers".In Azerbaijan, near the village.Agdash, growing 500-year old tree with four stems.In the huge hollow it was once a teahouse, which seats up to ten people.A sycamore Sherabad able to place among their trunks even a small Muslim school.
now often opt for planting a tree sycamore klenolistny - a hybrid of Eastern and Western.It is a hardy, grows well in the middle lane, quickly forms a crown.This is in general sycamore - southern handsome man, striking his haughty grandeur.
