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Nursery Direct
Cut Leaf Plane
Platanus orientalis var. digitata
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 75L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Cut Leaf Plane - Platanus orientalis var. digitata
The cut leaf plane differs from the ubiquitous London plane in one obvious way: its leaves are divided into narrow, deeply cut lobes, so the canopy casts a lighter, more broken shade and the whole tree reads as finer in texture. It shares the plane family's flaking cream, olive and grey bark and its extraordinary tolerance of compacted soil, heat, drought and reflected glare, which is why Platanus orientalis and its forms have been the backbone of avenue planting in southern Australian cities for well over a century.
Why the Cut Leaf Plane
Finely dissected leaf: Deeply cut lobes give a lighter, lacier canopy than the London plane, with dappled rather than dense shade.
Mottled bark: Bark flakes in irregular plates to reveal cream and olive patches, a genuine winter feature.
Urban toughness: Tolerates compaction, restricted root volume, drought and heat radiating off roads and paving.
Longevity: Plane trees are long lived and stand up to repeated pruning cycles over decades.
Deciduous seasonality: Drops for winter to let sun into streets and buildings, then leafs out for summer shade.
Ideal Applications
Avenue and boulevard planting: Evenly spaced rows give the classic formal avenue with a lighter canopy than the London plane.
Large courtyard shade: Its dappled shade suits paved courtyards where full shade would feel cold.
Pleached and pollarded forms: Responds to hard annual pruning, so it can be trained into raised screens or lollipop forms.
Civic and campus landscapes: Reliable over the long term in high-traffic public spaces.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 6m when pleached into a raised screen
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 12m
Best Planting Season: Winter to early spring while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Almost any soil including heavy clay and alkaline ground; prefers deep soil with reasonable drainage but tolerates far worse
Establishment Care: Water deeply once a week through the first two summers to encourage roots to follow moisture downward. Mulch generously over the root plate, formative prune in the first few winters to establish clear trunk height and good branch spacing, and be aware that fine hairs shed from new spring foliage can irritate sensitive people in enclosed spaces.
Plant Details
Height: 12 to 20m
Width: 8 to 15m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Deciduous, deeply lobed, turning yellow to brown in autumn
Light: Full sun
Native to: South east Europe and western Asia
Flower Colour: Insignificant, followed by hanging spherical seed balls
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







