noctilucent clouds
noctilucent clouds (NLC) Literally, ‘night-shining’ blue–silver clouds seen in late or early twilight during the summer from high temperate latitudes. Noctilucent clouds result from water vapour condensing on nuclei (possibly meteoric or volcanic debris) at altitudes of around 82–85 km, close to the
mesopause. The clouds are extremely tenuous, and are seen only when the Sun lies between 6° and 16° below the horizon, appearing bright by contrast with the twilight sky. Noctilucent clouds lie five times higher than the loftiest clouds in the
troposphere, and are distinct from cirrus clouds to which they bear a superficial resemblance. In particular, noctilucent clouds may be identified by their delicate, feathery, interwoven herring-bone structure. They are more common in years of low solar activity, and there is evidence that they are becoming more frequent.
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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A MEMORABLE BARK \ SYCAMORES, LONDON PLANE TREES A DELIGHTFUL ROADSIDE SIGHT.(At Home)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 8/26/2006; 692 words
; ...because of the time involved for trees to grow stately. In France...sight to see massive, old trees standing side by side with young whips. Old trees are gifts from the past...hybrid offspring -- the London plane tree -- feature bark that's...
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 "Capital (Annapolis)")
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Gardening: London plane trees adored
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 8/5/2006; ; 576 words
; ...Most specifically, the London plane trees. These creatures are everywhere...is what makes London plane trees seem more like "creatures" than mere trees. You know the bark, even...because the London plane tree is the hybrid offspring of...
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We need more planes - plane trees, that is
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 8/11/2006; ; 579 words
; ...Most specifically, the London plane trees. These creatures are everywhere...is what makes London plane trees seem more like "creatures" than mere trees. You know the bark, even...because the London plane tree is the hybrid offspring of...
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It's no plane Jane A sycamore tree is a delight to see.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 8/4/2006; ; 526 words
; ...specifically, the London plane trees. These creatures...creatures" than mere trees. You know the bark...because the London plane tree is the hybrid offspring...planting rows of London plane trees - or sycamores, where...away from such extensive tree plantings because of ...
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Bikers take up chainsaws to declare war on hazard of the French road - the plane tree
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...itself the Anti-Plane Tree Commando sawed down 66 trees on a minor road...clandestine attack on plane trees in the Pyrenees...He said a tree - unlike a road...attacks on the plane trees in his constituency...actually strike a tree. Gendarmes say...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Spare our treasured old trees; THEY'RE 150 YEARS OLD AND 150 FEET HIGH, BUT FOUR PLANES ARE UNDER THREAT FROM INSURERS.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 2/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...has an almighty root and that tree is cut down it will contract...wrong and so they should." PLANE FACTS The London plane is believed to be the only tree unique to the capital. The oldest surviving London plane trees surround Berkeley Square and...descended from a hybrid plane ...
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Cathedral plane tree doomed
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/19/1997; ; 506 words
; ...90-year-old London plane trees in the south grounds...It is hoped that the tree will be removed in a...led to its demise. The tree has a fungal disease...common in ageing native trees and exotic hardwoods...decay and options for the tree's fate, the council...
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Row of plane trees poisoned
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 1/11/2001; ; 487 words
; ...poisoning of four 50-year-old plane trees in Collingwood St which now seem...trees being poisoned was an oak tree on Shelbourne St five years ago. The tree survived. Mr Petheram said the plane trees had been earmarked for replacement...
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 "Express & Echo (Exeter UK)")
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Tree surgeon refuses to axe the cathedral green's plane trees
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 5/26/2007; 567 words
; ...seven 30-year-old London planes on the city's Cathedral Green...was called in to cut down the trees that run from Broadgate across...were called in to examine the trees and found they were all suffering...should be felled. But now the tree surgeon has bowed out, saying...having now." Three other ...
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Letter: Plane trees' revenge
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/15/2001; ; 358 words
; ...your article about the war on plane trees ("Bikers take up chainsaws...the French road - the plane tree", 10 August). Indeed...his car impaled on a plane tree. Sawing down all the plane trees of France will not solve the...
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plane tree
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...for wood pulp. The London plane ( P. acerifolia ), sometimes miscalled Oriental plane, is much planted as an ornamental shade tree in cities; it is probably...of the American and Oriental planes. Sycamore is sometimes spelled...of the family Moraceae. Plane trees are classified in ...
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plane
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...material) with a plane: high areas can be planed down . ∎ archaic make smooth or level. plane plane 4 (also plane tree ) • n. a tall spreading tree (genus Platanus , family Platanaceae) of the northern hemisphere...
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Plane Family
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Plane Family The Plane family is a family of trees and large shrubs known...London plane, a hybrid tree species, which is commonly...from the same individual tree. The flowers are minute...dispersed. The best known tree of this family is the...American species are small ...
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xystus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
xystus. 1. Roman garden planted with groves of plane-trees, usually laid out with flower-beds and surrounded with...Long loggia or verandah . 6. Hypaethral walk, shaded by trees. 7. Part of a Roman house, bigger than an atrium...
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Platanaceae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Platanaceae A family of deciduous trees which comprises only 1 genus, Platanus . Plane trees have flaking bark, buds enclosed in petiole bases, and alternate, stipulate , palmately lobed leaves. The flowers are tiny, in several globular heads...
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