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London plane - very large fast-growing tree much planted as a street tree

genus Platanus, Platanus - genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore

plane tree, platan, sycamore - any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits

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The London Plane was understood to date from 1909, when Acocks Green station was built.

Ancient tree cut down

The 10 "London plane" trees, pictured, line the perimeter of the Mackintosh Sports Club in Roath, Cardiff.

Club plans to give trees chop

The 10 "London plane" trees line the perimeter of the Mackintosh Sports Club in Roath, Cardiff.

Aged trees face the axe in sport club renovation

When officers from Middlesbrough Council's Streetscene Services department arrived at the scene, they found more than half of the trunk of the London Plane tree had been cut through.

Tree vandal fined PS1,000

I firmly believe that planting more trees is the answer, and not to cut them down as we saw last year by the felling of our beloved 140-year-old London plane tree in Broad Street.

Plant trees instead of hitting drivers; Letters

A 120-year-old London plane tree can be 30 metres tall and weigh 40 tonnes or more, and some of the carbon in its tissues will have originated from Victorian coal fires.

Trees matter, more so in urban jungles

She has a particular love of some London plane trees planted by Queen Victoria", her great-great-grandmother.

TV goes royal 'crazy' in run-up to Harry and Meghan marriage

More on this: [VIDEO] Miguna refuses to get into London plane, says he is sick

[Statement] How 'thugs' drugged and deported me to Dubai - Miguna

| Ray Egan, aka John Bull, and the London plane tree on Broad Street, which is thought to have been planted in 1876 VETERAN campaigner Ray Egan - the man who protests under the name John Bull - has taken a trunk call to save one of the region's best-known trees.

Bully for Ray - he's out to save famous Brum tree!

AT the exit from the fire station on to Radford Road a decades-old copse of London plane trees is being cut down.

Plane wrong to cut trees down; Letters

Her work is carried in stores around the Seattle area, including The Bellevue Arts Museum and The London Plane. One of her cups was featured in Starbucks' national launch of its Flat White beverages earlier this year(http://sarahkaye.net/blog/2015/1/6/flat-white).

Slow Down and Feel the Porcelain