London Plane Tree - Buds Set - November 2020
We had a storm come through last week that dropped all the remaining leaves - and I mean ALL - in the yard. With the leaves off the limbs, I've started to investigate the structure of some of the trees and noticing that most of them have set buds before they head into dormancy. The first tree that I looked at was our new (this year) London Plane Tree. The brief history of the tree is that I bought this with some birthday money from Nat's Grampy in early Spring , planted in May and it was immediately stressed , it seemed to recover and full leaf out this Summer, only to return to a stressed-state during the late Summer heat . Below is a look at one of the limbs of this tree that shows off what are quite pointy buds: The London Planetree buds you see above are almost thorn-like at this point, but based on what I see online, they'll continue to grow out and get a little bit 'bent' in the appearance of their tips . It also says that the Plane Tree (or Maple-leaf