Tilia platyphyllos
Bigleaf Linden
 
 

 
60 to 80 feet tall.
Yellowish white flowers in 3 or 6 flowered, 3/4 inch long cymes. Floral bracts are 2 to 5 inches long.
Earliest flowering Linden at the same time as T. x europaea.
Alternate, simple, roundish ovate, 2 to 5” long, about as wide. Has the largest leaves of the European species of Tilia but not as large as the American basswood.
 
 
 
 

 

 

‘Aurea’- Young twigs and branches yellow.

‘Fastigiata’- Upright-oval in habit, branches strongly ascending.

‘Laciniata’- lrregularly lobed leaves and considerably smaller tree than the species.

‘Rubra’- Young stems red in winter.

‘Tortuosa’- Branches are curiously curled and twisted.

 

 

 
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