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Also
known as the American planetree, this giant is the largest
of North American hardwoods. Some early trees were large enough
for settlers to stable livestock inside the tree! The wood
is widely used for millwork, furniture parts, flooring and
butcher blocks. It has a very large base, a massive straight
trunk, and large spreading, often crooked branches forming
a broad open crown.
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| Height: 60’-100’ |
| Leaves: 4”-8” long
and wide. Alternate, simple. Broad and oval with 3-5 shallow,
broad, short-pointed lobes. Bright green above; paler beneath
and becoming hairless except on veins, turning brown in autumn. |
| Habitat: In
the wet soils of flood plains, stream banks and the edges of
swamps or lakes. It is likely to be found along the banks of
Pittsbugh’s rivers. In Maine, to the Florida Panhandle,
west to central Texas, north to Nebraska and into northern Mexico. |
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