Platanus x hispanica
London plane, hybrid plane

- Family: Platanaceae
- Origen: cultivar species, found throughout Europe

A tree that can reach 30 metres in height, with a thick trunk with reddish bark that comes off in plates, revealing numerous whitish-grey scars.

The leaves are deciduous, complete, palmatilobed, with 3 to 7 lobes, more or less deep, serrated edge and long petiole with a pod that widens at the base. In autumn they turn orangish-yellow.

Monoecious species, with unisexual flower that are arranged in tight pendulous spherical inflorescences, in groups of 1 to 3 on the same peduncle. The females are larger, reddish and located at the ends of the branches, while the males are yellow and sprout on the old wood, not at the ends of the small branches.

The fruits are dry and form a globose infructescence (polyakenes) measuring some 2.5 centimetres in diameter. In autumn, they turn brown and remain on the tree all winter.

Source: Rosalía de Castro Park Botanical Guide