Yes of course!! How stupid of me...I knew this at some point! We actually
see feral sycamore maples in NYC area from time to time.
Thanks!

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Mike LaMana, MS
Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC
Toms River, NJ
www.HeartwoodConsulting.net



"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
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Mike LaMana said:

Brian:

Sycamore has alternate branching. This seedling has opposite branching,
hence cannot be a platens.

'Sycamore' is the common name (in Great Britain) for a type of maple (Acer
pseudoplantanus). This 'sycamore' would indeed have opposite branching.
You can occasionally find one of these 'sycamore' maples planted in the
USA;
my friend had one in the backyard of her house in town. (It took me a
while to
figure out what type of maple that one was.)

In North America, the common name 'sycamore' is applied to a plane tree
(especially Platanus occidentalis).

And, to be thorough, the 'sycamore' mentioned in the Bible is actually a
type
of fig (Ficus sycamorus).

The original poster's sprouts were definitely some sort of maple (Acer
sp.).
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Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

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