? Oriental Plane
Fruits and leaves of Oriental plane
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Proteales Family: Platanaceae Genus: Platanus Species: P. orientalis
Binomial name
Platanus orientalis L.

The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis L.) is a very large, widespreading, and long-lived deciduous tree in the Platanaceae family. It is native to Eurasia from the Balkans to Iran; although some accounts extend its native range from Iberia to the Himalaya. It is often called Platane or related names in Europe, and Chenar or related names in Iran and India. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 336 KB) Platanus orientalis by the river w:Styx, Greece. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Proteales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... Species See text The genus Platanus is a small genus of six species of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. ... Species See text The genus Platanus is a small genus of six species of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... Species See text The genus Platanus is a small genus of six species of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ... Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it once inhabited by the Iberians, who spoke the Iberian language. ... The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...

Like other Plane trees, its leaves are borne alternately on the stem, deeply lobed, and palmate or maple-like. It usually has flaking bark, occasionally not flaking and becoming thick and rugged. Flowers and fruit are round and burr like, borne in clusters of between 2 and 6 on a stem. Considerable variation exists among trees in the wild, and this may be complicated by crossbreeding with planted London planes (Platanus x hispanica), the hybrid of P. orientalis with American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis). Species See text The genus Platanus is a small genus of six species of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. ... In botany, palmate refers to leaves that have veins radiating from the point where the leaf attaches to the petiole (stem). ... The MAPLE dedicated isotope-production facility is a current project jointly undertaken by AECL and MDS Nordion. ... Binomial name Platanus x hispanica Muenchh. ... In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ... Binomial name Platanus occidentalis The American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), also known as American plane and Buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America, where it is rather confusingly very often just called Sycamore, which can refer to other types of tree. ...

It is capable of being grown in most temperate latitudes, though it benefits greatly from warm summers.

Myth and lore

From earliest days, the Oriental plane (P. orientalis) has been an outstanding tree in Persian gardens, which are built around water and shade. There it is known as the chinar, the plane tree to which Xerxes is said to have written an ode, to the astonishment of the Greeks. The moment is recorded in Handel's opera Xerxes in the famous Largo. Art depicting two men in a Persian Garden Persian Gardens refers to a tradition and style of garden design which originated in Persia, modernday Iran. ... George Frideric Handel (German Georg Friedrich Händel), (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German-born British Baroque music composer. ...

It is reputed to be the tree under which Hippocrates taught medicine at Kos. Pliny's Natural History records the westward progress of the plane "introduced among us from a foreign clime for nothing but its shade" (xii.3), planted first at the tomb of Diomedes on the island of Tremiti, then imported to Greek Sicily by Dionysius the Elder(c. 432-367 BC), tyrant of Syracuse, who had plane-trees conveyed to the city of Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria), where they were looked upon as the great marvel of his palace, according to Pliny's sources, and from there spread by the first century CE as far as the lands of the Morini in Belgic Gaul. Hippocrates: a conventionalized image in a Roman portrait bust (19th century engraving) Hippocrates of Cos (c. ... Kos or Cos (36°51′ N 27°14′ E, Greek Κώς) is a Greek island in the Dodecanese group of islands, in the Aegean Sea. ... Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elders Natural History is an encyclopedia written by Pliny the Elder. ... This page is about Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse. ... Categories: Italy-related stubs | Coastal cities | Towns in Calabria ... Morini was a tribe of gauls-page not finished Categories: Articles to be expanded | Gauls ...

Some medicinal properties are ascribed to its leaves. The timber, often called lacewood, is figured and valuable for indoor furniture. Timber Timber is a term used to describe wood throughout its processing from the time it is planned for use in industrial products to the time it is used as a structural material or in other industrial product, such as wood pulp for paper production. ...