Several Planes at Once

I think this may be one of the largest trees I’ve seen outside of the Coast Redwoods. Click on this image to make it larger, and note the fits-four-adults bench at the base of the bole, just past the lamp post. It’s a London Plane (Platanus × acerifolia), gifted by the Vassar College Class of 1906 to the campus arboretum.The nearly horizontal lower branches have these interesting warty growths along their top.Enjoying some of the shade underneath this behemoth. This was taken with “toy camera effect,”