March/April 1977
Los Angeles County Department of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens
New Lasca Leaves
With this issue we introduce Lasca Leaves in its new format, the first ma- jor change since the California Ar- boretum Foundation started publish- ing the magazine nearly twenty-seven years ago.
The basic content of the magazine will continue as before: news items about Department affairs and articles about, or related to, our plant collec- tions, our services, and our historical section. We believe that Lasca Leaves has taken a big step forward in its new
format. It continues to provide the ba- sic editorial content it has in the past while bringing a new dimension in the form of authoritative articles that will deal with environmental and natural science topics of fundamental interest to us all.
Arbor Day
“A Tree Is A Friend For Life”’—This is the theme of the Department's 1977 Arbor Day program, participat- ed in mainly by elementary schools in the Los Angeles County School Dis-
Student previews seedling silk floss trees grown for schools participating in sted Arbor Dey program. LASCA Apeotcs — William eit
trict but also by a few junior high and high schools. This year, as last, approximately 1,000 schools will take part in the program. Science curricula coordinators will receive packets of Arbor Day teacher resource material prepared by the Education Division. The material consists of a history of Arbor Day, information on forests and reforestation, a collection of tree facts (one tree has the cooling effect of five air conditioners), suggestions for indoor and outdoor games involving knowledge of trees, and a leaflet de-
The silk floss tree, Chorisia speciosa, is the Arboretum’s 197 v Arbor ih tree.
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scribing a national contest for teachers and schools developing the best tree program.
A highlight for most schools is a tree-planting ceremony on March 7, the traditional date for observing Ar- bor Day in California and most other states. The trees are a gift from the Department to participating schools. This year’s Arbor Day tree is the silk floss tree (Chorisia speciosa), a color- ful ornamental native to Brazil that puts out a brilliant display of purple- hued flowers for three months or more every fall. A thousand of these trees are growing now at the Ar- boretum. When the time comes for the schools to pick them up, they will be well over six feet high.
Camellia Show
The forthcoming camellia show at De- scanso Gardens on the weekend of March 12th and 13th caps the camellia season in southern California so far as major exhibits are concerned. In addi- tion to the three to four thousand vari- eties of cut blossoms entered in the various competitions, visitors can ex- pect to see the 100,000 camellia bushes growing under the canopy of Descanso’s famed oak forest in full bloom, a scene certain to provide a dramatic backdrop for the feature ex- hibits.
In this area, the major hybridizing effort is made by amateur growers, most of them members of the South- ern California Camellia Council which stages this great show each year. The principal aim of these grow- ers is to develop varieties that are cold hardy and that have different forms. Some of these new hybrids and seed- lings will be displayed at the show along with such regular features as question-and-answer booths and de- monstrations of propagation by graft- ing. A new attraction will be a flower- arranging exhibit staged in the gar- dens’ Hospitality House.
Baldwin Bonanza VII This year’s Baldwin Bonanza, the an- nual plant sale at the Arboretum pre-
sented by Las Voluntarias of the Cali- fornia Arboretum Foundation, will be held on Sunday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A special preview for Foun- dation members and their guests will be held the previous evening (Sat., April 30) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Mem- bers are advised to make their reser- vations early with the Foundation office. Mrs. David (Joan) Malafronte, Bo- nanza chairman, reports a few changes in this seventh version of one of the Arboretum’s most popular events. One is that the entire event will be brought together under the 12,000 - square - foot saran - covered shade area just west of the Garden For All Seasons. This will free the Demonstration Home Gardens from the pedestrian traffic jams that devel- oped there last year from plant sales in the area. Another change calls for replacing the “Collectables Corner” with a new “Edibles Booth” offering culinary herbs and a selection of fruit- ing vines.
A regular Bonanza feature is the sale of Arboretum plant introduc- tions. Plants that will be available, are Blue Hibiscus (Hibiscus huegelii), Crown of Gold (Cassia excelsa), Green Bottlebrush (Callistemon pa- chyphyllas var. viridis), Combretum fruticosum, Stigmaphyllon affine (or- chid vine), Beaufortia sparsa, Mela- leuca elliptica, and Grevillea nemato- phylla. Of particular interest will be a selection of cycad seedlings.
As in the past, visitors can choose among various kinds of ferns, sin- ingias, begonias, palms, pelargoni- ums, cactus and succulents. They will also have a choice of hanging baskets and other handcrafted items.
Library Donation
A 450-volume horticultural library be- longing to a century-old seed compa- ny, Germain’s, Incorporated, has been donated to the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum by Wal- ter Schoenfeld, company president and member of the Board of Trustees of the California Arboretum Founda-
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tion.
In addition to a wide range of bota- nical and horticultural works plus cat- alogs and yearbooks of various plant societies, the collection includes a number of early 19th century books containing beautiful and rare hand en- gravings. The library in its entirety has been valued at over $30,
The library had its genesis in a trip to Paris at the end of the second world war by the late Manfred Meyberg, who was president of Germain’s at the time. Visiting the great seed house of Vilmorin Andrieux, Mr. Meyberg was shown the horticultural library the company maintained for its em- ployees. Impressed by its quality, Mr. Meyberg decided to develop a similar library for Germain’s. Following his return home, he sent his vice-presi- dent, Walter Schoenfeld, on a trip to Europe that would include making contacts with firms dealing in botani- cal books written, or available, in En- glish. Mr. Schoenfeld established his best contacts with London _ firms through which Mr. Meyberg subse- quently developed the main body of his library, which he installed in the corporate office. Following his death in 1956, the company began moving toward its present activity as a manu- facturer and distributor of chemicals, redwood boxes, tools and other prod- ucts used by home and commercial gardeners. The selling of flower, veg- etable, and field seed is still a major part of the business, but the present company is far different from the Ger- main’s Fruit and Plant Company formed by Swiss-born Eugene Ger- main in 1871 in Los Angeles and own- ing, among other things, the city’s seventh telephone installation. Mr. Schoenfeld, mindful of Mr. Mey- berg’s long association with the Ar- boretum and his innumerable contri- butions to the horticultural communi- ty of Los Angeles, decided the library would serve its widest purpose by be- ing made available to the Arboretum staff and to visitors, an arrangement he was certain Mr. Meyberg would endorse.
Betsey Binet
The Aboretum Plant
Science Library
O ne of Southern California’s most extensive collections of plant lit- erature lies in one of the least known libraries. The Los Angeles State and County Arboretum’s Plant Science Li- brary houses books and periodicals covering nearly every subject from advanced botany to how to identify that mysterious creeping vine in your garden.
The history of the Plant Science Li- brary goes back almost as far as the concept of the Arboretum itself. In 1950, a committee was appointed to
select books suitable for developing a horticultural library. The library was originally located in what is now the Youth Education Building. Some books were purchased, but most of the first publications were acquired through donations.
When the library was originally cat- alogued, an adaptation of the system of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was used, and it served the collection very well. Over a period of time, however, the creation of new classifications did not keep pace with
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the expansion of the library in terms of subject matter. As a result, it was decided to recatalogue the collection, either according to a revision of the system already in use or to a standard library classification system. The Li- brary of Congress classification was chosen for a number of reasons, one being the staff members’ familiarity with that system. Although the Li- brary of Congress classification is not often seen by the public—most public libraries use the Dewey Decimal Sys- tem— it is widely used in universities
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and special libraries. A notation that combines alphabetic and numeric ele- ments allows for greater subject sub- division. For example, botany in the Dewey system must fit within the numbers 580 through 589; in the Li- brary of Congress system botany re- ceives almost a thousand numbers un- der the alphabetic notation QK, re- served exclusively for that subject. Today, the Plant Science Library, containing over 23,000 items and still growing, is already partly recatalog- ued and the work continues with one full-time librarian and a student assis- tant.
his is a versatile library in that its T holdings respond to the botanical and horticultural interests of amateurs and professionals. The scholar and scientist can find in its index files rep- resentative works on morphology, pa- thology, genetics, taxonomy, bio- chemistry, and other scientific divi- sions related to the study of plant life. Technical works are available on land- scaping, ornamental _ horticulture, photography, and even on the art of calligraphic writing. A large collection of books on the flora of other coun- tries and areas of the world serve the specialist and layman alike. Typical ti- tles are “Flora Brasiliensis,” “Forest Flora of New South Wales,” “Trees of
Southern Africa,” and “Wayside Trees of Malaya.” The famous 100,000 camellia
bushes growing at Descanso Gardens have prompted the acquisition of a sizable collection of books on this ge- nus. The collection of eucalyptus trees at the Arboretum—the largest outside Australia—are well covered in the Plant Science Library as is the Herb Garden, which contains some 400 species of medicinal, kitchen, and fragrance herbs. Because the Ar- boretum is a wildlife sanctuary and contains a small lake that provides a haven and shoreline nesting places for migratory and resident birds, the li- brary offers books and pamphlets on animal life and related ecology. Because of the rich history of the Arboretum land and the century-old
buildings on it—together they have been described as a history of Califor- nia in miniature—the library has a siz- able collection covering this period. It offers literature on the three Ar- boretum structures—Queen Anne Cottage (1881), Coach Barn (1879), Hugo Reid Adobe (1833)—that have been designated California Historical Landmarks and that remain continu- ing objects of public inquiry.
These, then, are some of the Plant Science Library holdings that reflect the special, and perhaps unique, physical and historical character of the Arboretum.
Ma" of the library’s acquisitions are very old and rare. The old- est book is, “A Niewe Herbal Historie of Plantes Wherein is Contayned the Whole Discourse and Perfect De- scription of All Sortes of Herbes and Plantes,” published in 1578.
Another interesting and rare publi- cation was written in 1737 by a young woman named Elizabeth Blackwell. Undertaken to pay off her imprisoned husband’s debts, the two-volume work is called, “A Curious Herbal Containing 500 Cuts of the Most Use- ful Plants Which Are Now Used in the Practice of Physick.” Mrs. Blackwell researched, illustrated and hand- wrote the descriptions of each herb. The drawings, considered rather ele- mentary today, were thought to be quite innovative and well done at the time of publication. The library copy was printed in 1751.
Even British philosopher John Locke is represented in the library’s collection. In 1766 he wrote, “Obser- vations Upon the Growth and Culture of Vines and Olives; the Production of Silk and the Preparation of Fruits.” The book, a thin, pocket-sized vol- ume, was used on many voyages be- tween England and the American Colonies.
ge Plant Science Library offers a wide range of services to the public. Library personnel assist stu- dents in plant science projects, take telephone inquiries regarding hor-
ticultural literature, and catalogue bo-
tanical and horticultural reviews and pertinent articles daily to provide up- to-date reference. Quickly available to everyone are such standard refer- ence works as the Bailey Standard Cy- clopedia of Horticulture, the Gray Herbarium Card Index of Plants, Ex- otica III, Index Kewensis, Standard- ized Plant Names, and the Gardener's Dictionary. Popular trade periodicals include: American Horticulturist, Cactus and Succulent Journal, The Camellia Journal, The Herb Grower Magazine, Landscape Industry, Scientific American, and Sunset Mag- azine. The library has an extensive collection of scientific journals among which are: American Journal of Bota- ny, California Geology, Ecology, Eco- nomic Botany, Environmental Pollu- tion, Forest Science, Nature, and Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. Also readily available are numerous nursery and seed catalogs and films, slides and photographs of specific plants. Several television films about the Arboretum can be checked out for school use. And finally, the library serves as a gathering point for the names, locations and activities of hor- ticultural groups and societies in and outside the area.
I has been said that if all of the books used by the Arboretum staff were returned to the shelves, there would not be enough room in the li- brary for all of them. The acquisition of new books and articles is a continu- ous task, and the ever-expanding li- brary is beginning to feel the lack of growing space. However, if construc- tion of the proposed Hall of Environ- mental Education is approved, the Plant Science Library will have this much needed space.
In the fiscal year 1975-76, an es- timated 2,500 people took advantage of the Plant Science Library and its services, available to the public week- days 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Though it is not a lending library and books may not be checked out, it is an ideal place to get horticultural information.
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David Deardorff
Plant Portraits: California Sycamore
(Platanus racemosa)
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T he plane trees or sycamores, spe- cies of the genus Platanus, have been valued for their beauty for cen- turies, and have intrigued botanists with their antiquity, evolution, and mode of pollination. Their mottled bark, gnarled branches, and dangling spherical clusters of “seeds” (achenes), are a familiar part of the landscape, both urban and rural, in most of the temperate regions of the world. Although the distinctive fea- tures are easily observed from a dis- tance and permit instantaneous recog- nition of the genus, close examination of a sycamore tree in flower reveals an unexpected, subtle beauty of form and color. The flowering period may easily pass unnoticed because the flowers are minute and somewhat ephemeral, but it is well worth ob- serving, especially in the California sycamore, Platanus racemosa.
The California sycamore begins to bloom in earliest spring just as its fur- ry, green-gold, new leaves expand.
e tiny flowers are clustered into small spheres like chenille Christmas omaments suspended from a string. The grape-sized female flower clus- ters glow blood-red when sunlight shines through them, and the pea- sized male flower clusters are bright yellow-green. Flower clusters of both sexes are borne on the same tree; each dangling, thread-like peduncle bear- ing from three to seven of them. The branchlets bearing the inflorescences are covered with golden fuzz like the young leaves and are often artistically
contorted. The strongly irregular, ruggedly branching pattern contrasts harmoniously with the muted colors of the new leaves, flowers, and twigs, suggesting the strong lines and soft colors of a Japanese water color. It is at this time, during the flowering pe- riod, that the California sycamore is in the most colorful phase of its seasonal cycle of growth.
The color of the flower clusters is due to the red styles of the female flowers and to the green and yellow stamens of the male flowers rather than to the petals. Although petals are present in the flowers, they are very small and inconspicuous. The small size of the petals and the early bloom- ing period are adaptations to wind pollination. Platanus and other wind pollinated plants produce copious quantities of pollen which is released from the stamens to float on the wind. As the pollen drifts from tree to tree, some of it is caught on the sticky stig- matic surface of the long red styles of the female flowers where it germi- nates and fertilizes the ovules in the ovaries. After fertilization, the ovaries enlarge and the flower clusters ripen into the familiar “button-balls” or “seed-clusters” which persist on the tree through the winter. Each “seed” (achene) bears a parachute of long hairs at its base; when the achenes are ripe, they too are dispersed by the wind.
Most wind-pollinated flowering trees either have no petals or have very small, nondescript petals like
Platanus racemosa. Large, brightly colored, showy petals, such as are found in most of the flowering plants, serve to attract bees and other insects, birds, or even bats. These animals vis- it the flowers in search of nectar and thus carry the pollen from flower to flower. In wind pollinated plants, such petals would simply be in the way. They interfere with the repro- ductive cycle by reducing the effec- tiveness of the wind in carrying the pollen to the stigmas. Since plants with small petalled flowers are more effectively pollinated by the wind, they produce more seed than wind pollinated plants with large petals. Thus, natural selection operates over time to reduce or eliminate the non- essential parts of the flower.
e evolution of wind pollinated plants is a complex process involving a syndrome of changes in the structure of the flower. In addition to large pet- als acting as a physical barrier, factors such as energetics and competition for pollinators are undoubtedly involved. Such factors are as yet only partially understood, and pollination biology is a relatively new and rapidly growing field with many challenging questions that have not yet been answered
Because of their simple flower structure, botanists at one time be- lieved that wind-pollinated trees like Platanus were primitive. Although Platanus does retain some features thought to be primitive (unsealed car- pels, indefinite number of floral parts), botanists today believe that
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their flowers are simplified rather than simple and that they are, there- fore, relatively advanced or special- ized rather than primitive.
Although Platanus is not as primi- tive as it was once thought to be, it is very old. The earliest fossils attribut- ed to Platanus are perhaps 100 million years old, and fossil remains of Plata- nus dating from 40 to 50 million years ago are abundant in western North America. The fossils are found in as- sociation with Ginkgo, Metasequoia, and deciduous flowering plants such as Populus and Liquidambar. Al- though it is difficult to distinguish one species of Platanus from another on the basis of the fossil remains, it may be that P. racemosa has been relative- ly unchanged since the middle of the Miocene epoch, 20 to 30 million years ago. The fossilized or ified” wood of Platanus, prized for its strik- ing grain, is sought by rockhounds, cut and polished, and fashioned into jewelry. Quarter sawn lumber of Pla- tanus species is used in cabinet work and furniture for its beautiful grain. The wood is heavily crossgrained, tough, and difficult to split. At one time it was used for buttons, hence the vernacular name “button-wood” tree.
The most common vernacular name for Platanus in the United States is sycamore, although it is also called plane tree, button-wood, or button- ball tree. The Spanish-speaking pion- eers of the Southwest called it aliso. In Europe, the preferred name is plane tree because the name syca- more is reserved for a fig, Ficus syco- morus. Plane tree is actually a more appropriate name since the name of the genus, Platanus, is derived from Greek and means broad or flat in ref- erence to the broad, maple-like leaves.
Platanus is the only genus in its family, the Platanaceae, and there are only seven or eight species in the ge- nus. All of the species have dangling, spherical clusters of unisexual flowers; large, palmately lobed (maple-like) leaves; and smooth, mottled bark.
P. racemosa. Drawing by Patty Lawson.
The leaves of P. racemosa are large, four to eleven inches long, and dense- ly hairy when young. As the leaves mature, the hairs on the upper sur- face are shed. These hairs, borne on the wind, can cause irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat in sensitive in- dividuals. A unique feature of Plata- nus is that the petiole (leaf-stalk) is di- lated at the base and encloses the win- ter buds. The distinctive bark is thin, cracking and peeling off in flakes each year and revealing the softly tinted new bark beneath. As each flake of old bark peels off, the new bark gradually changes color with age and exposure to light and air. The smooth trunk be- comes a mosaic of pale pastel patches of green, pink, white, and buff with bits of brownish old bark clinging here and there. The bark at the base of the trunk on old trees is often per- sistent, becoming thick and ridged like the bark of most other kinds of trees. The trunk of Platanus racemosa is frequently divided into two, some- times more, secondary trunks which are often leaning at odd, picturesque angles. Nurseries are now beginning to stock small, multi-trunked speci- mens of P. racemosa.
Most of the species of Platanus are cultivated as ornamental plants. The most widely planted cultivar is the London Plane Tree, P. x acerifolia, a hybrid between P. occidentalis and P.
orientalis. Platanus orientalis is the species familiar to the ancient Greek writers (Plato’s informal assemblies met under the spreading canopy of this species). It is a native of the re- gion from southeastern Europe to In- dia. Platanus occidentalis is native to the eastern United States and P. race- mosa, the California sycamore, is na- tive to the southwestern United States. Botanists disagree whether the form found in Arizona is a separate species, P. wrightii, or is a variety of P. racemosa. Native stands of the Cal- ifornia sycamore are commonly en- countered along stream beds and al- luvial benches in the valleys of south- ern California. It follows the canyon bottoms up into the mountains to about 3,000 feet in the San Gabriels, where it occasionally associates with yellow pine.
The stream-bed habitat provides a clue to successful culture; it prefers a deep, rich, moist soil. It is a large tree and grows fast, eventually reaching 50 to 100 feet tall. It tolerates pruning well and can be shaped into a multi- trunked clump. Sycamores are propa- gated by seeds and by cuttings, either hardwood or softwood. It transplants easily and looks best in a native or wild garden, or in a large informal garden. It is sensitive to cold and can- not be grown in northern areas and is susceptible to sycamore blight, Gno- monia platinii (also known as anthrac- nose). This blight can be controlled with fungicide sprays. Directions on their use are given in Horticulture Bulletin #9, available at the Ar- boretum Information Center.
Several large specimens of the Calli- fornia sycamore may be seen on the grounds of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum. Two very large trees may be seen in section H3, the Arboretum Foundation and Sunset Demonstration Home Gardens, where their spreading branches and cool shade provide welcome relief from the heat of a summer afternoon.
California sycamore, Platanus racemosa.
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