<\/p>\n Like the Eucalyptus tree, featured in ThirtySeven: Missions, Creeks, Trees, Bubbles, and Painting<\/a> artists love to paint it because the white bark reflects much of the local color.<\/p>\n The stream is Guadalupe Creek<\/a>. Originating just east of the peak of Mount Umunhum in the California coastal range, and flows through Ca\u00f1ada de los Capitancillos<\/a> before joining Los Alamitos Creek (painted in Fifteen: The Hard Drive Machine<\/a> and Eighteen, Nineteen: Mercury Sheen<\/a>). This confluence forms the Guadalupe River, painted in #2, 6 , 24, 33, 39, and 51, through downtown San Jose and enters the bay at Alviso Slough. Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have spawned historically in Guadalupe Creek.<\/p>\n This painting of a California Sycamore along Guadalupe Creek was close to the corner of Coleman Rd and Meridian Ave in San Jose along the Guadalupe Creek Trail<\/a>. 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Platanus racemosa, commonly called the California Sycamore<\/a> is native to California and ranges from Baja northwards to the Sacramento Valley and up into the Sierra Nevada foothills. It grows in riparian areas, canyons, floodplains, at springs and seeps, and along streams and rivers. The trunk generally divides into two or more large trunks splitting into many branches.<\/p>\n![\"This](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_5153.jpg?w=331&h=248\" "\\"This")
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