Tilia × europaea

Common lime (Tilia × europaea)

The lime [ Tilia × europaea, also Tilia × intermedia or Tilia × vulgaris = Tilia cordata ( Small-leaved Lime ) × Tilia platyphyllos ( large-leaved lime ) ] is a kind of deciduous tree of the genus Linden (Tilia ) in the family of (Malvaceae ). It complicates the light itself distinguish between summer and winter linden, as it combines a bastard nature, characteristics of both parents.

Description

The lime is a deciduous tree, the plant height of about 40 meters and can reach a width of about 20 meters. The slightly crooked - heart-shaped foliage leaf is at hand, hairy whitish to yellowish in the angles of the leaf veins. The flowers appear depending on weather conditions in June- July, but always in front of the small-leaved lime. The nutlets are hairy plump and velvety - tomentose.