Amur Linden
Tilia amurensis · Tiliaceae · 피나무
How to spot it
Characterized by a long lanceolate bract attached to the middle of the flower cluster stalk and broad egg-shaped leaves with a heart-shaped base.
Look
- Leaves
- Broadly egg-shaped leaves with an abruptly lengthened tip and heart-shaped base, 3 to 9 cm long; the underside is gray-green with dense brown hairs in the vein axils, and the margin has sharp teeth.
- Flowers
- Pale yellow, strongly fragrant flowers grow in flat clusters of 3 to 20 from late May to late July, with a lanceolate bract 5 cm long attached to the middle of the flower stalk.
- Fruit
- Round nuts without ridges, densely covered with white or brown hairs, mature with the bract attached from mid-August to late September.
- Bark
- Gray-brown bark; the trunk grows straight.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Found in China and the Russian Far East, and throughout Korea.
- Ecology
- Likes deep, fertile soil such as in valleys, grows mixed with oaks, Maackia and birches, and is strongly cold-hardy, shade tolerant and salt tolerant. Growth is very poor on dry, shallow soil.