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Tilia x europaea |
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Common or European Linden |
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  3
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Hybrid Origin
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Central and
Southern Europe |
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Rounded habit at maturity. |
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Can become a very large tree with specimens of 150 feet
found in
England. |
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Flowers earlier
than T.
cordata and
T. x
euchiora, usually around early June.
Floral bract 3 to 4 1/2” long, 1/2 to 7/8” wide. |
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Alternate, simple, broad-ovate, 2 to 4” long, about as
wide. |
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Stems and buds glabrous, usually intensely red-maroon,
buds and stems smaller, more refined than those of
T.
heterophylla. |
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Tomentose,
hard-shelled, faintly 5-ribbed. |
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‘Wratislaviensis’ - Produces new growth of a
yellow color which eventually becomes green |
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