Acer pseudoplatanus, also known as the sycamore maple or plain sycamore in the UK, is a tree that’s often known more for its negative qualities than its positive – large, fast growing and prone to ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. A scan of stream and river banks in this part of the ...

The winter landscape can often seem stark and barren, but the native sycamore tree is at its loveliest in bleak mid-winter. Tall and stately with exfoliating bark that exposes the shimmering white ...

When fall’s cold nights kill the flowers and cause so many of our trees and shrubs to drop their leaves, the bareness shines our focus on what’s left – for one thing, tree trunks. Trunks and their ...

It is also a very long-lived species — up to 500 years and more. Three-foot diameter trees are not uncommon, and these would ...