Leaves: alternate, simple, 13-25 cm long and wide, palmately 3 or 5 lobed; base of long petiole covers bud
Flowers: tiny, greenish, in ball-like clusters
Fruit: 2.5 cm brown ball, usually in pairs on long stalk; composed of many narrow nutlets with hair tufts
Range: a hybrid of P. occidentalis of the eastern U.S. and P. orientalis of southeastern Europe; widely planted as an ornamental
Best Recognized Features:
1. Mottled bark
2. Fruit a brown ball, usually 2 on the stalk
3. Leaf about as broad as long with short lobes