Although widespread & thoroughly domiciled in England, this is not a native tree, but was introduced some centuries ago from Europe. The word sycamore is derived from the Greek & means a mulberry fig. It is the name of given to a species of fig in southern Europe, with leaves resembling those the mulberry. In there ignorance, our ancestors imagined the great maple to be this fig tree because of a fancied similarity between the leaves. Although nobody now supposes this tree to be a fig, there are many who do not know that it is a maple. It grows to a large size with a spreading rounded crown. The bark is light grey, smooth in young trees, but later scaling off in rounded flakes.
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