Hardwood Lumber Identifier
Extensive information on domestic & exotic hardwoods.
| American Sycamore | |
| PHOTO | Need Photo |
| DESCRIPTION | Sapwood creamy grayish white heartwood sometimes just a bit darker in color to a red brown. Quarter sawn material displays a beautiful figure caused by the medullary rays in the wood. |
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| BOTANICAL NAME | Platanus Occidentalis |
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| USES | Furniture, turnery. |
| COMMENTS | English sycamore is not at all related to American sycamore. American sycamore is related to London plane tree. English sycamore is actually related to maple it is an acer. |
