Single alternate leaves of the sycamore tree, leaf large leaf cordate, palmate 3-5-lobed, 15-30 cm in diameter, lobes triangular, apical acuminate, base cordate, both surfaces are glabrous or slightly pubescent, basal veins 7, petiole and leaf blade is as long as. One of the most graphic description of Mr. Feng Zikai:
When the end of spring and the beginning of summer, my eyes saw the light of the first milk of the new tungsten. Those young yellow leaves in clusters on the top of the bald branches, as if a hall tree lights, but also as if the schoolchildren's cut-and-paste pattern, the arrangement of uniform and with childish gas.
In the summer, I again eye to see the green leaves into the shade of the light. Those large fan leaves. Growing dense layers. The pig's ear, hanging in overlapping layers, has been hanging from the low branches to the top of the tree.