Bentley Priory Nature Trail
Post 21: Just ahead is a second number 21 marker post, but the ground between can be extremely boggy. The second post marks another of Sir John Kelk’s plantings: an oriental plane Platanus orientalis, native to southeastern Europe. It bears lovely large, deeply cut palmate leaves - see illustration below. A hybrid between this species and the American sycamore Platanus occidentalis generated the London plane which graces many streets in central London.

Bear right through the squeeze stile and then bear left at the arrow post.


Image: Leaf from this Oriental Plane tree. The leaves are enormous - the size of a plate.

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