American Sycamore Moon Tree Platanus occidentalis 100 Seeds

In 1971 the astronaut Stuart Roosa flew to the moon on the Apollo 14 mission. He piloted the command module which orbited the moon. Roosa had previously been an engineer and he had also worked as a smokejumper for the forest service. He had the idea to bring seeds of forest trees with him to the moon and then plant them when he returned to the earth. He did just that and when he launched to the moon, he brought with him 500 seeds of several species of American trees. The seeds were planted after he returned and the resulting plants were planted in a number of locations. Some of the seeds were those of the native American sycamore, a tree that is native to Florida as well as much of the eastern United States. It is a large, durable and heat and flood resistant tree. One of the moon tree sycamores was planted at Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral in Florida. Another plant was planted on the campus of the University of Florida, which is in northern Florida. The plant at the University