Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single seed head hanging from twig with buds (3.37414)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description: Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single yellow seed head on long stalk hanging from twig with buds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), shedding bark on trunks and branches (3.37431)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of gray-brown flaky bark exposing white trunks and branches
Extent: 1 slide
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and stalks (3.37415)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two spiky yellow ball-like seed heads and stalks
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and seeds (3.37416)
Date: October 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), three yellow ball-like seed heads and detail of seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), trunks, branches, and autumn leaves (3.37433)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail gray-brown flaky scales, mottled patches of white on trunks and branches with brown leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and seeds (3.37417)
Date: March 1969Creator: Curns, B.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two ball-like seed heads and stalks, one cross-section cutaway seed head showing detail of attached seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), autumn (3.37434)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tall autumn trees, almost bare with brown leaves, trunks with brown bark near base, mottled near tree tops, smooth white patches on branches
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 04 (3.34553)
Date: December 21 1967 – March 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution (49-53)
- Winter Injury (54-58)
- Climatological Summary (57)
- The Lookout (59)
- Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Sycamore Family (Platanaceae) (60-61)
- Arboretum News and Notes (62)
- Three Year Index: 1965-1967 (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seeds (3.37418)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of seeds on ground
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two tall bare trees (3.37435)
Date: April 1972Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two tall bare trees, mottled trunks, nearly white near the top, amongst trees and shrubs, early spring
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore) (3.37419)
Date: October 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), near road and utlity pole with cables
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare trees near creek (3.37436)
Date: November 23 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare trees near Sugar Creek in Shades State Park
Extent: 1 slide
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare treetops (3.37420)
Date: February 25 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare treetops
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree along river bank (3.37437)
Date: May 1980Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree with nearly white top and branches along river bank, man standing at river's edge
Extent: 1 slide
Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters (3.24608)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters
Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
(depicted from left to right)
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- American elm -- Ulmus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), late fall near creek (3.37438)
Date: November 23 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), late fall, bare tree with white trunk alongside gently sloping bank near Sugar Creek in Shades State Park
Extent: 1 slide
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bud at end of twig (3.37406)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of shiny, dark brown bud and scar at end of single twig
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), mature trees on creek bank (3.37439)
Date: November 23 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), mature, bare trees on bank of Sugar Creek in Shades State Park
Extent: 1 slide
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig and lateral bud (3.37407)
Date: April 2 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of single twig with lenticels and one pointy lateral bud
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), winter (3.37423)
Date: January 2000Creator: Boland, Tim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tall bare tree in winter
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree near road (3.37440)
Date: April 1968Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree near road
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), lateral bud on twig (3.37408)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of one reddish-brown lateral bud and scar on stout twig
Extent: 1 slide
Summer or wood duck = [graphic] Anas sponsa / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.25015)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark (3.37409)
Date: March 1967Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of gray-brown flaky scales and mottled bark
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tree trunks (3.37425)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark on two tree trunks with gray-brown flaky scales and mottled peeling patches of white
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), hanging fruit and flower balls with leaves on twigs (3.37410)
Date: March 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with several hanging red and green flower balls, brown seed heads and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), flower ball and leaves (3.37411)
Date: June 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty, Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single hanging green flower ball and detail of broadly toothed bright green leaf and pale green underleaves
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark and exposed trunk (3.37427)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of flaky gray-brown scales and exposed smooth white patches on trunk
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), diseased twigs and leaves (3.37412)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description: Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), diseased twigs and leaves with brown patches along veins and tips
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree trunk and branches (3.37429)
Date: January 1985Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare tree trunk with peeling bark and mottled branches
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), hanging fruit and flower balls with leaves on twigs (3.37413)
Date: May 1971Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with several hanging red and green flower balls, brown seed heads and leaves
Extent: 1 slide