Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)

Pot or container plants for planting in summer can be found here: Sycamore maple in the pot.

For slope reinforcement, noise protection, pioneer settlement, urban area good noise protection, road space but salt sensitive, forest planting, wind protection wood also as a beehive wood. The wood is seedless, hard and dense, white and easy to split and is one of the noble hardwoods. Use for veneers, furniture, tonewood for musical instruments, parquet production, firewood and firewood. The Berghorn is very fast-growing at a young age. The roots of the sycamore maple are undemanding, so the tree is easy to transplant. The tree can live up to 200 years. The sycamore maple is a valuable native tree species. Voted tree of the year in 2009.

Location

The mountain horn is a light and partial shade tree, it tolerates sun to light shade and is also shadow-bearing, which makes the tree very undemanding. The tree makes no demands on the soil. Heart roots developed from tap roots open up the soil well. The soil moisture ranges from dry to moist. Soil depth from medium to deep, the pH value from slightly acidic to alkaline.

Characteristics

• Height: 30 m high
• Crown: rising branches with a rounded crown
• Trunk: diameter up to 1m
• Root: tap roots later to heart roots
• Flower / fruits: flower color yellow / brownish. The sycamore maple is unisexual or hermaphrodite, both forms occur side by side. Greenish nut fruits have propeller-like fruit wings and are spread by wind. Flowering period April-May.

• Leaves / needles

• Leaf position opposite. The leaf has five hand-shaped pointed leaf lobes, leaf length 10-15 cm. The name platanoides comes from the leaf resemblance to the plane tree.

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