Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: My favorite sycamore, 0 by Decumbent

Decumbent wrote:
Okay, now that I've gotten the hang (tenuously) of this photo thing, I'll post another picture I took yesterday. Because my computer crashes everytime I try enlarging a thumbnail picture, but doesn't when I do it on DG, I'll post a second picture, too. One, I think, is a good picture and the other not so good.

I spend a lot of time appreciating bark. I grow several snakebark maples and stuartias (Resin!), and as I try to triage which plants I'll try to cram into my garden, interesting bark and good fragrance are two deal clinchers. My point is this: a good sycamore has got as fine a bark as almost any tree in the world. It is only because of their ubiquitousness (huh?), that we tend to ignore them for this feature. If the American sycamore were to suddenly be introduced from some never explored gorge in Myanmar (which you might know as Burma), we would all be injuring one another for the first opportunity to put it in our gardens. Am I right?