The reference to plane trees (Ezek. 31:8) is only the second time in the Old Testament that the species occurs (see Gen. 30:37), and is the Oriental plane. It is probably one of the ‘parents’ that created the famous hybrid ‘London Plane’; the other parent is the American plane (Platanus occidentalis). Oriental planes are common in towns and cities of the Mediterranean, grow large and are long-lived, but clearly never the equal of cedar of Lebanon as Ezekiel makes clear!