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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Plane n.  Bot. Any tree of the genus Platanus.
 Note:The Oriental plane ({Platanus orientalis}) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane ({Platanus occidentalis}), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species (Platanus racemosa).

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 But·ton·wood n. Bot. The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Platanus racemosa
      n : tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large
          alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters
          of flowers [syn: California sycamore]