When the Assyrian is compared to a great tree it is described as excelling in its beauty the branches of the chesnut tree. Eze 31:8. It is identified with the 'Plane-tree' which grows in Palestine. It was known to Jacob. Ge 30:37. It is the Platanus orientalis. It thrives best in a rich moist soil, and is a noble and beautiful tree.

CHESNUT TREE, ?????. This tree, which is mentioned only in Ge 30:37, and Eze 31:8, is by the Septuagint and Jerom rendered plane tree; and Drusius, Hiller, and most of the modern interpreters render it the same. The name is derived from a root which signifies nakedness; and it is often observed of the plane tree that the bark peels off from the trunk, leaving it naked, which peculiarity may have been the occasion of its Hebrew name. The son of Sirach says, "I grew up as a plane tree by the water," Ecclesiasticus 24:14.