This ppt is made for the e-Twinning by a Greek team

1. The Plane tree ( Platanus Orientalis) By Irini for the Greek Team

2. Platanus Orientalis or Oriental Planetree

3. Plane tree is a very large, wide spreading, and long-lived deciduous tree.

4. Plane leaves

6. Its flowers are reduced and borne in balls.

7. Leaves and flowers

9. Plane trees are mostly found in riparian or other wetland habitats in the wild.

10. Most small villages in Greece have one or more very old planes in their central square, where the village's water spring used to be

12. In Greece there are plane trees everywhere : near rivers and lakes, in public parks or in the middle of a street!

13. The tree is quite capable of survival and success in dry soils once it is established .

14. This is our favorite tree!