Description
Popular street and park tree. Beautiful shiny mid green, leathery, maple-like leaves. Attractive bark mottled of white, buff, yellow and grey as dark older bark is shed in plates to expose bright new bark beneath creating an interesting patch work pattern. Large bristly seed ‘balls’ usually produced in pairs add winter interest.
- Seed Count: 15-20
- Collection Date: Nov 2019
- Hardiness Zone: 6-10
- Height and Widt: 10m x 5-7m
- Germination test type: cut; germination
How to germinate Platanus acerifolia seeds:
Soak seed 24 hours in warm water. Prepare seeding pot with a good growing well draining mix with an upper sowing layer of an equal peat/coarse sand mix. Sow 6 mm deep. Keep moist. Germinates in 7-21 days at 20 C. I’ve successfully germinated these seeds in 10 days in moist peat in a ziplock on gentle heat (20 C). Keep an eye on them and prick them out when the seedling root is 2 cm long to transplant. Keep seedlings warm. Don’t over water and don’t let them dry out as they are putting all their energy into putting down a deep tap root.
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