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TREES AN v;i:n;- 



Stcamorb. (!'!■'■ ightii) 



The b^camore ( Platanus wrightii) is another native tree 

 that might be used for decorative purposes. I: grows natur- 

 ally in the southwestern part of our State, so far as I have 

 seen, only in the foothills of the mountains in the region of 

 the Gila and its tributaries. This tree attains a height of sixty 



vent} feet, is not infrequently twenty-four to thirty inches 

 in diameter at the butt, has a wide spreading open head, 

 smooth, flaky, whitish gray bark, and large palmate leaves 

 whose five long acuminate lobes hang downward in a cluster 

 with points almost touching. It may be rather difficult t< 



cultivation. 



