'plane tree') is the daughter of the Thessalian king Aloeus and the sister of the Aloadae giants, who attacked the gods.
Her brief tale survives in the chronicles of a Byzantine scholar of the twelfth century, Nicephorus Basilacius.
[1] Platanus was a very beautiful girl, and as great in stature as her enormous brothers and sister.
When Zeus with a lightning bolt slew the Aloadae for trying to wage war against the very heavens, Platanus was so sorrowful her shape change to that of a tree bearing her name, the plane tree, keeping the great size and beauty she had in her previous life.
[1][2][3] A similar fate befell her sister Elate, who transformed into a fir tree for the same reason.