Must be the Treasured Vegetal Emblem of Something-or-Other

I went out for the weekend for a stroll in a Belgrade

park and discovered this sycamore tree. This specimen

a hybrid of the Asian sycamore and North American

sycamore. It's huge, it's old, it's baggy, flaky and covered

with wooden warts, it's propped up on a forest of iron

supports, and it behaves more like an undersea

creature than any tree I've ever previously seen.