Saturday, December 15, 2012

Sycamore Tree – Santee, CA

Here it is Fall in Southern California. Our current location has a very large California Sycamore tree with “huge” leaves. It really only takes a few to cover our site and rig. Really the leaves are huge! Here are some pictures with a sample leaf next to a measuring tool that is 15 inches long. While this particular leaf is large it is not an exception. There are larger and smaller leaves falling from our tree.


The bark is sort of spotted white, black, and grey. It took us a while to correctly identify the tree mostly because of the maple-tree-shaped leaf.



There is another tree with much much smaller leaves that create a kind of carpet of yellow under the tree’s canopy. Lucky for us we have a large rake we carry for just these types of ground cover in our sites across America. It gets us out doing something physical besides walking the dog.