Platanus acerifolia, also known as Platanus acerifolia and Kumarajiva Tree, is a deciduous tree. It is the parent of Platanus acerifolia, which can reach up to 30 meters. It is a world-famous excellent street tree and street tree, and is known as the "king of street trees".

Its crown is a broad bell shape; Dry skin is grayish brown to grayish white, flaking off. Young branches and leaves are densely covered with brown stellate hairs. Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed, deeply lobed to the middle, lobes longer than wide, leaf base wide wedge-shaped or truncated, leaf margin dentate, palmately veined; Stipules in rows. Inflorescence capitate, yellow-green. Most nuts are clustered with whole leaves, with 3-6 balls in a string. The persistent style is long and hairy, and the fruit stalk is long and drooping.

Like the light, like the humid and warm climate, relatively cold-resistant. It is cultivated in many parts of Eurasia.

Platanus acerifolia is a deciduous tree of Platanus. The shoots and petioles are somewhat yellow-brown pubescent, and the white pulp in the branches has a yellowish thin diaphragm. Leaf blade broadly ovoid, ovoid, triangular ovoid or ovoid-elliptic, apex acuminate, base truncated or broadly wedge-shaped, rarely subcordate, entire or undulate, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous on both surfaces. Corymbose cymes terminal or axillary; Calyx purplish red, 5-lobed almost to base; Corolla white or pinkish; Style not exceeding stamens. Drupe is nearly spherical and blue-purple when it matures. Originated in China, it is widely cultivated from South China to Hebei. Wood can be used to make musical instruments; Seeds can be eaten or pressed with oil; Leaves, flowers, roots and seeds have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen.