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Platanus racemosa - tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers

California sycamore

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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For example, species that typically germinate in early spring after a cold and/or rainy winter, such as Platanus racemosa, western sycamore, often require cold, moist stratification mimicking natural wintering to break dormancy.

Seed collection and germination strategies for common wetland and coastal sage scrub species in Southern California

(1989) documented postfire production of resprouts in California sycamore (Platanus racemosa), a close relative of P.

Effects of wildfire on riparian trees in Southeastern Arizona

The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in California typically inhabits grassland foothills with scattered oaks (Quercus sp.), sycamores (Platanus racemosa), or large gray pines (Pinus sabiniana), with sustainable California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) and black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) populations, either along the Coast Range or the Sierra Nevada (Grinnell and Miller 1944).

Species at risk: Golden Eagle predation on arid-land foxes

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