Exclamation!™ London Planetree - Sycamore Native (Cultivar) extending the tree's ornamental value

extending the tree's ornamental value well past its spring debut

The color reminds me of the pink pastels I used on art projects in my younger days and darkens as the blooms mature

Daniel Dayton at the University of Illinois introduced Prairie Fire in 1982 as a happy accident from the PRI (Purdue-Rutgers-Illinois) disease-resistant apple breeding program [4]

Though the intensity of the blooms fragrance may vary it is described as having a sweet

which has long been part of our native landscape

Exclamation!™ London Planetree - Sycamore Native (Cultivar) extending the tree's ornamental valueThe Exclamation! London Planetree is an excellent shade tree if you are looking for disease resistance and a tolerance of poor conditions. With beautiful green, brown and tan exfoliating bark that peels off in large chunks, Exclamation! is a hybrid of the American sycamore (Plantus x occidentalis) and the Asian Plantetree (Plantus Orientalis) that was created specifically for its ability to resist a number of diseases that commonly afflict shade