Large-leaved Lime
Tilia platyphyllos · Malvaceae · 넓은잎피나무
How to spot it
Distinguished from Tilia cordata by thick twigs (2-4 mm) that are often hairy, no stellate hairs on the leaf underside, and larger flowers with fewer per cluster.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are roundish, 6-11 x 6-10 cm, dark green with sparse short hairs above and mid-green beneath with brown tufts of hair at the vein axils.
- Flowers
- Relatively large saucer-shaped flowers 12-17 mm across grow in groups of 3 (up to 7) on drooping clusters.
- Fruit
- The fruit is obovate, 9-12 x 8-10 mm, with five ridges and covered in white felt; the wall is thick and woody.
- Bark
- Gray-brown bark develops vertical, squarish ridges from about 30 years of age.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Widespread, centered on central and southern Europe, from the southeast coast of Sweden to the Balkans, Turkey and the mountains of southwestern Ukraine; rare in England and Wales.
- Ecology
- Mainly in woods on calcareous soil, up to 1,500 m elevation.