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Manor View Nursery (now closed), 3321 Columbia Avenue, Lancaster PA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This London Plane supports a lamp whose mounting stem is being enveloped by the tree. \u00a0[For a similar phenomenon, see “White Oak\/Sign-Eating Tree” in a separate entry.] \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trees that encounter objects obstructing their growth have three options: (1) stop growing, (2) grow away from the objects, or (3) envelope and “eat” the objects. \u00a0Given time,\u00a0trees can grow around\u00a0and consume\u00a0just about anything.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A famous example is the Bicycle Tree of Vashon Island, Washington (see last photo). \u00a0Here, a rusted bicycle is suspended inside a tree’s trunk about 7 feet off the ground. \u00a0 How this happened is not known for sure but one story has a young man chaining his bike to the tree before going off to WWI in 1917, never to return. \u00a0However, the bike is a child’s bicycle, not a young man’s; and its style is from the mid-20th Century, not early. \u00a0A more probable explanation is that in 1954\u00a0an 8-year-old boy\u00a0by the name of Don Puz\u00a0was playing in the island’s swampy woods, hung his bike in a tree fork, forgot it when he went home, and never bothered to retrieve it (Puz says he disliked the bike).\u00a0\u00a0In any event, the Bicycle Tree today is a major tourist attraction in the Varshon area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discovered in the mid-17th century in a garden in Vauxhall (a district in London), London Plane is a hybrid between the American Sycamore and the Oriental Plane. \u00a0Sycamores bear one seed-ball per stalk and Orientals bear three; the London Plane has two seed-balls on at least some stalks. \u00a0As seen in the fourth photo, this tree has some seed-balls in two’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This amazing species is so favored as an attractive and hardy urban dweller that it accounts for over half of all the trees in the city of London.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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