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unusual facts about Plane tree



Akçaabat

The first settlers of the town came from Aegean shores and named the town "Platana" because of the abundance of plane trees (Greek Plàtanos, Πλάτανος, Latin Platanus).

Combinatorial class

For instance, the triangulations of regular polygons (with size given by the number of sides of the polygon, and a fixed choice of polygon to triangulate for each size) and the set of unrooted binary plane trees (up to graph isomorphism, with a fixed ordering of the leaves, and with size given by the number of leaves) are both counted by the Catalan numbers, so they form isomorphic combinatorial classes.

Flecktarn

Platanenmuster ("Plane tree pattern"; 1937–1942): spring/summer and autumn/winter variations

Minced oath

The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by the gods, suggesting that they swear instead by the ram, the goose or the plane tree.

Pierre Blaise

Accompanied by two friends whom he had brought along for company, Blaise lost control and crashed against a plane tree on the route de Laujol between Moissac and Durfort-Lacapelette, where he lived with his parents.

Place Carnot

The Square has an area of 11,000 square meters, and consists mainly of Plane Trees, with Cypresses and Holly Oaks on the Southern side.

Surrey Hills, Victoria

The streets were planted mainly with avenues of Pin Oak and Plane trees, which are now mature and offer a pleasant shady vista.

The Circus, Bath

Now, the central area is grassed over and is home to a group of old plane trees.

Tzanata

A mineral water spring (vrysi) fed from the ‘bottomless’ Avithos lake at Agios Nikolaos feeds a fountain in the plane tree sheltered square where the village festivals, served by souvlaki stalls and the adjacent taverna, are held in the summer months.

Villegly

The Place de la Fontaine and Place de l’Arounel, shaded by plane trees, may indicate the former location of the moat of the château.


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