" Tilia Cordata " Size: 3m- 4m

Description:
Native to large parts of Europe. Grows fairly slowly when young but can nonetheless eventually reach a height of 25 - 30 m. It remains smaller when cultivated. The trunk is dark brown and grooved. Young twigs are green to reddish brown. T. cordata leafs out about a fortnight later than T. platyphyllos and has relatively small leaves that are bluish green underneath. The base of the leaf is heart-shaped and sometimes slanted and the leaf top tapers to a sharp point. Pungent flowers appear in early summer, growing 5 – 10 together in short, upright umbels. The light green bract is somewhat shorter than the umbel, 6 - 7 cm. Fairly small round fruit follows in late summer. These are grey and felt-like at first and later bare. T. cordata is not very prone to aphids. The lime tree has a centuries-old history behind it and it is still much used in today's landscape architecture.