Tilia – Lime Tree – Linden – Basswood –<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 20-45 fast growing, deciduous trees in the Malvaceae family, in this genus.\u00a0 They occur in woodlands in temperate Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 They are grown for their stately, rounded to conical crown, their foliage and flowers, and in some cases, for their colorful winter shoots.\u00a0\u00a0 The oblique-cordata shaped leaves, arranged alternately on slender stalks, are toothed or lobed, with tapered to pointed tips and heart shaped bases which briefly turn yellow in fall.\u00a0\u00a0 On old trees, the smooth silver-gray bark becomes fissures with great age.\u00a0 Bear small, cup shaped, fragrant,, creamy white to yellow flowers in slender, axillary cymes with long stalks are fused with the upper surfaces of large, narrowly elliptic or inversely lance shaped, membranous bracts, usually pale yellow or green, to 6″ long.\u00a0 The flowers are followed by dry, nut like fruits.\u00a0 Grow as a freestanding specimens or street trees.\u00a0 The flowers attract bees, although the nectar of T. tomentosa and T. \u2018Petiolaris\u2019 may be toxic,,, especially to bumblebees.\u00a0 They withstand heavy pruning and atmospheric pollution.<\/p>\n

Grow in moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade.\u00a0 Avoid very conditions and exposure to strong winds.\u00a0 Lindens prefer areas with four distinct seasons and alkaline or neutral soil, but tolerate acidic soil.\u00a0 Several species produce dense thickets of shoots from the bass and from burrs on the trunk, control these by cutting back in early spring and again in late summer.<\/p>\n

Prone to anthracnose, butt rot, canker, powdery mildew, bacterial leaf spot, caterpillars <\/em>(including gypsy moth larvae<\/em>),\u00a0 lace bugs, aphids, borers, Japanese beetle <\/em>and mites.<\/em><\/p>\n

T. platyphyllos \u2018Princess\u00a0\u00a0 Street\u2019 – Broad-leaf Linden – Big-leaf Linden <\/strong>\u2013 This vigorous columnar tree from Western Europe to Southwest Asia grows 80-100′ tall and 70′ feet wide.\u00a0 It produces alternately arranged ovate to cordate\u00a0\u00a0 mid to dark green leaves, up to 6″ long, paler and bluish usually densely hairy beneath and turn yellow in autumn.\u00a0 The trunk is gray, straight, and rough with fine fissures and with bright red winter shoots that are downy.\u00a0 It bears pendent cymes of 3-5 pale 3\/4″ yellow fragrant flowers with 5 sepal and 5 tepals and numerous stamens, in mid summer followed by hard\u00a0 pear shaped, ribbed fruit.<\/p>\n

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