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Home Botanical Information Cal Poly Habitats

Pictures of the California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa)

 

A large twin trunked sycamore - use Brian for scale.

 

A fallen sycamore leaf returns to the source from which it came.

 

A piece of sycamore bark.

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Characteristic mottled bark of the California sycamore.

 

The process of life starts anew among the fallen foliage.

 

A hanging chain of small sycamore flowers that gives it the scientific designation "racemosa."

 

Spring growth unaffected by anthracnose fungus.

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A close up of early signs of anthracnose.

 

A series of sycamores showing anthracnose blight.

 

The secondary leaf growth on an anthracnose stricken sycamore.

 

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