1851 R. C. Trench ii. 42 To compare the shape of this region [sc. lower Greece] to platane leaf.
1870 Sept. 219/1 Morea, so called from its resemblance in shape and incised edges to a platane leaf.
a1891 J. R. Lowell (1892) 176 Like ripply lights the sunshine weaves..On the o'erarching platan-leaves.