22 March 2025
Because the climate warmed this month American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) seed balls disintegrated to disperse their wind-driven seeds.
On 16 March it was very windy after I visited Herr’s Island again channel. Sycamore achenes (seed packets) blew by me within the wind and piled up within the cracks like snow drifts.
Sycamore snow.
They’d come from seed balls like these that had waited all winter for spring warmth to make them stretch and burst.
Not solely do they disperse on the wind however the fluff-tops have a second mode of transportation. They float.
Water carries them to their favourite habitats.
American sycamore is discovered mostly in bottomland or floodplain areas, thriving within the moist environments supplied by rivers, streams, or plentiful groundwater.
You’ll be capable of establish American sycamores simply earlier than leaf out. Search for the white higher trunks of huge bushes alongside stream and river banks.
