Platanus racemosa

 Platanus racemosa (western sycamore) (aliso)

Platanaceae



  • El aliso es uno de los pocos árboles nativos grandes que se encuentran en el hábitat ribereño cerca de la costa y hasta elevaciones de 1, 200 mts.
  • Los kumiai usan ramas de aliso para la construcción de marcos de casas tradicionales y ramadas.
  • Los asesores de La Huerta utilizan una infusión hecha con la corteza como tónico para la sangre.
  • Un hongo comestible cree en la parte inferior del tronco.
  • Los alisos son suceptibles al muérdago (Phoradendron macrophyllum). Según Jon M. el muérdago del aliso puede usarse para teñir el cabello de color negro. "Etnobotánica kumiai, Michael Wilken-Robertson."
  • Tree 1-25 m. tall; leaves palmately 3- to 5- lobed, usually cordate or truncated below the middle, 10-15 cm. broad, scarcely as long as broad, the lobes usually entire, tomentose when young, usually glabrate in age; petioles shorter than leaf blade; staminate heads 8-10 mm. in diameter; pistillate heads 2-2.5 cm. in diameter in fruit. Along river and stream banks in the foothills and valleys; upper Sacramento Valley and interior valleys of Coast Ranges, south to coastal southern California, northern Baja California. "A Flora of the Marshes of California. Herbert L. Mason".

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