iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.
Link to original content: http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/species.asp?item=3191
This is a very common and familiar tree in all parts of Northern Ireland, but it is not native to any part of the British Isles. Its spread and expansion in Northern Ireland appears to have occurred within the past two hundred years, but the date of its first introduction is unclear. (The oldest tree in Ireland is in Co. Cavan and dates from the seventeenth century.)
It is a hardy tree, resistant to exposure inland and on the coast, and has been extensively employed as a shelter belt around exposed houses: many old farmsteads still have such sycamore shelter plantings in their vicinity. Apart from planted trees, sycamore spreads readily by wind-blown seed carried in the characteristic "double samaras" or winged fruits.
The name sycamore properly refers to a fig-tree with which it was confused because of the similarity of its leaves in shape to the true fig-tree.
The wood has a light colour and is easy to carve and turn.
All names: Acer pseudoplatanus L.
NBN Atlas mapping: Species account : NBN Atlas UK Species Observations database
iNaturalist: Species account : iNaturalist World Species Observations database