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Acer pseudoplatanus
''Acer pseudoplatanus'', the sycamore or sycamore maple, is a species of maple native to Central Europe and Southwestern Asia, from France eastwards to Ukraine, and south in mountains to northern Spain, northern Turkey and the Caucasus, but cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.〔Flora Europaea: (''Acer pseudoplatanus'' )〕〔Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.〕
== Names ==
The superficial similarity of the leaves and bark of ''A. pseudoplatanus'' to those of plane trees in the genus ''Platanus'' led to it being named ''pseudoplatanus'', using the prefix ''pseudo-'' (from the Ancient Greek for "false"). However, the two genera are only distantly related. ''Acer'' and ''Platanus'' differ in their leaf insertion (alternate in ''Platanus'', paired or opposite in ''Acer'') and in their fruit, which are spherical clusters in ''Platanus'' and paired samaras in ''Acer''.
The name "sycamore" originally belongs to the fig species ''Ficus sycomorus'' native to southwest Asia (this is the sycamore or sycomore referred to in the Bible). The name was later applied to this species (and others; see also ''Platanus'') by reason of the superficial similarity in leaf shape.
Other common names for the tree include false plane-tree,〔(USDA GRIN entry for ''Acer pseudoplatanus'' )〕 great maple,〔 Scottish maple,〔 Mount Maple'', mock-plane,〔(Tropicos entry for ''Acer pseudoplatanus'' )〕 sycamore,〔〔 or Celtic maple.
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