 The sycamore is native to central and eastern Europe and western Asia . Its natural range includes Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Czech Republic , Georgia , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Italy , Lithuania , Poland , Romania , southern Russia , Switzerland and the former Yugoslavia . Reports of it occurring in eastern Turkey have been found to refer to A. heldreichii subsp. trautvetteri . It was probably introduced into Britain in the Tudor period by 1500 and was first recorded in the wild in 1632 in Kent . The date of its first introduction into Ireland is unclear , but the oldest specimen in Ireland is in County Cavan and dates from the seventeenth century . It was introduced into Sweden around 1770 with seeds obtained from Holland . 
