The department found that 30 percent of the street trees were either Norway maple or London plane.

The London plane is particularly popular for this purpose.

In the case of the London planes, the aggregate diameter amounts to about 67 inches.

This week a young London plane still had burlap around its roots.

London planes are often pruned by a technique called pollarding.

Say all you want about London planes being the Toyota of street trees, it takes a long time for a sapling to grow this big.

And planting too many of one kind - the London plane, for example - invites devastation from disease.

Trees like the overplanted London plane may present real problems.

Both tree species are considerably shorter than the London plane.

You'll be smuggled through to the London plane with great care.