More Trees

[genius101]

Why is the magnificent London plane tree so sucessful in the city when other species fail?

Why is the horse chestnut called a horse chesnut?

What was the controversy surrounding last years annual gift to London from the people of Norway of a Christmas Tree?

Why, in spite of being widely planted in the UK, does the giant sequoia not naturalise and spread?

I promise this is it on trees!!! Thanks in advance

[shaneystar2]

The London Plane is very tolerant of atmospheric pollution and root compaction, and for this reason it is a popular urban roadside tree.

Horse Chestnut

Aesculus hippocastanum. Linnaeus named the genus Aesculus after the Roman name for an edible acorn. The use of the term "horse" refers to their strength or inedibility, The word "horse" originally meant strong or powerful, and does not here refer to their fitness as fodder for horses, except in folk etymology.

[ulysses100]

A horse chestnut is called so because of the shape of the leaf scar which is horseshoe shaped when the leaf drops.

The sequoia seeds need to be heated in forest fires to enable them to germinate.

[Brooksy]

The London Plane sheds its bark, thus losing pollutants that might harm it.