bloodgood plane wood tree, stillwater OK. BUTTONWOODAN

"In 1792, the rules for buying and selling bonds and shares in companies began beneath a Sycamore tree or what was then referred to as a Buttonwood tree because its wood was used for making buttons.

 Twenty-four of New York’s leading merchants came together under their favorite Buttonwood Tree at 68 Wall Street where they drafted and signed “The Buttonwood Agreement”. This agreement stated that the stockbrokers were to only deal with each other laying the foundation for what has become the New York Stock Exchange.

 The buttonwood tree remained on Wall Street another 70+ years until it fell over during a storm. The loss was treated like a death in the family all across the country.

While “Planetree” isn’t exactly a household word, you may be familiar with the mighty American Sycamore, a parent of the excellent hybrid tree known as Bloodgood London Planetree (or London Plane Tree).

Except to the nerdiest of tree nerds, the two plants look identical:  Sycamore and Planetree are both large shade trees with massive limbs, big leaves, and fantastic flaky bark in a crazy-quilt pattern of khaki, gray, and ivory. ------------CALICO

Bloodgood London Planetree is a majestic, fast-growing tree for lining your driveway, creating a park-like atmosphere in your yard, or just providing some shade for a picnic table or patio."

My dad Dean Bloodgood made that twelve foot long airplane for me and my brother to play in, under the Sycamore he never told us was a Bloodgood planewood tree

I remember Dad making the plane on the slab:   it had a rotating propellor, a sliding cockpit, wheels so it could be rolled across the yard (weiughted probably 200 lbs)

Was sturdy enough to climb over the Bi plane wings and the tail fins

Painted with dice; sharks teeth like a WW 2 spitfire

Sycamore has a bucket grown into a branch for SAP