the Botanical name - Platanus acerifolia.
The German name - Platane, English - Plane tree, Sycamore.
Plane tree (plane trees, sikomor) - a tree of family plane-tree. Listopadnye, high trees with a dense wide crone. A trunk powerful (height to 50 m and in a circle to 18), cylindrical, with zelenovato-sulphur an exfoliating bark. About 10 kinds; live in the North America (from Canada to Mexico) and from East Mediterranean to Indochina. The plane tree quickly grows, especially in early age, can live till 2000 and more.
Mature wood has colour from rozovato-grey to dark yellow and krasnovato - brown. Shades of red colour are especially well appreciable on a fresh cut. A wood structure non-uniform, motley, very decorative. Wood fibres are often braided (svilevatost').
Plane tree wood dense, firm, with a beautiful structure, but easily gives in to rotting; it is used on joiner's and turning hand-made articles (plywood, a parquet, for container). It is well ground and polished, forming a beautiful brilliant surface. The best pattern -
A snake skin. Plane tree wood gets very beautiful wine-red colour after processing by steam. Dries extremely quickly without risk of splitting, but it is inclined to korobleniyu. For prevention of formation of cracks by an obligatory condition drilling of apertures under nails and screws is. Application of varnishes, glues and first coats on a water basis (divorces are possible) is not recommended. Before a covering poliuretanovymi varnishes drawing of the first coats excluding «podjig» wood is necessary.