The Arizona Sycamore ( Platanus wrightii ) is a big deciduous Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree aboriginal to canyons , flow and river in south and central Arizona , extending to adjacent westerly New Mexico and northern Mexico . It is unremarkably used as a landscape gardening tree for USDA hardiness zones 7 through 11 .
Arizona Sycamores can grow up to 80 to 100 feet tall , though they range between 40 to 70 feet . The trunk can rise to a diameter of 3 to 8 feet , sometimes even bigger in very one-time specimens . The tree ’s crest is broad and can propagate wide , ordinarily extending as wide as the tree is grandiloquent . The tree can last for several decades , with some specimen reaching over 100 geezerhood one-time . However , their length of service can be influence by various factors such as environmental atmospheric condition , disease , and human activity .
The leaves of the Arizona Sycamore are palmately lobed . The leaves are large about 4 to 6 inches ( 10 to 15 centimeter ) in width , and they are arranged alternately on the branches . The leaves are unripened on the upper side and a paler light-green on the bottom . The semblance can deviate slightly depending on the age of the leaf and the fourth dimension of year . The texture of the leaves is typically smooth and sometimes somewhat hairy when young . As the farewell mature , they may become slightly rough to the touch . In the fall , the leaves of the Arizona Sycamore turn a fortunate yellow colour before dropping .
The tree diagram produces inconspicuous blossom that go forth with the leaf in April and May . The flush are monecious ( have both male and distaff flush on the same works ) . The male and female heyday are segregated into disjoined heyday headway . The virile flower heads are dark violent and the female flower point are unripe . The flowers are arrange in obtuse globose unisexual forefront , either solitary or in raceme . The literal flowers are little and are not in particular showy .
The barque of the Arizona Sycamore is like to that of other Ficus sycomorus mintage , such as the American mulberry fig ( Platanus occidentalis ) and the California great maple ( Platanus racemosa ) . However , the Arizona Sycamore ’s bark is described as being more mottled and peeling than that of the American sycamore fig . The bark can be said as being thin , bloodless , and peel , with brown - grey-headed patches .
Arizona sycamore is dominant in riparian surface area of the Madrean Sky Islands , mountain sky island in southeast Arizona , extreme southwest , Bootheel area of New Mexico and along the San Francisco River in Western New Mexico , northeastern Sonora , and extreme northwest Chihuahua ) .
The mintage is more prevalent west of the Madrean Sky Islands region , still in the cardinal and northeast Sonoran Desert , an area around the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at the Arizona - Sonora delimitation , with the specie range of a function extending in Sonora in the Occidental , or its westerly foothill . Scattered reports have been made farther east in the Sierra Madre Occidental .
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