CHR 616268 – Platanus orientalis L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 616268
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
09 January 2012
Database record updated:
10 January 2012
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Platanus orientalis
Determiner:
Brad Cadwallader
Identification date:
2011-12-11 (Verbatim: 11 Dec 2011)
Preferred name:
Platanus orientalis L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Hamamelidales
Family:
Platanaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Kos
Verbatim locality:
Kos
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Greece
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
School of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch
Verbatim locality:
School of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch
Verbatim collector:
Brad Cadwallader
Standardised collector:
B. Cadwallader
Verbatim date:
11 Dec 2011
Start date:
2011-12-11
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Notes:
Height: 9 m; Girth: 79 cm @ 0.750 m; Spread: 9 m x 9 m. The tree is on the riverside entrance. Walk over the vehicle bridge at the end of Cashel Street into the Hospital grounds and follow the path running alongside the Hospital until you reach the end of that actual building only. Turn right across the drive onto the lawn for a few metres towards the river - there is a pyramid shaped rock with plaque at the base of the tree. The tree was grown from seed taken from the plane tree in Kos that Hippocrates is believed to have taught under and the importation of seed and its planting was organised by Dr Barrie Tait who was a specialist consultant at Christchurch Hospital in the 1970s. Image available.
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