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Tilia cordata
Littleleaf Linden
Tiliaceae
Located near Bishop Center back parking lot.
- leaves alternate, rounded-cordate, cordate base, pointed tip
- leaves serrate, lustrous green, smaller than T. americana
- buds smaller than T. americana, valvate, divergent, brown,
somewhat lopsided/twisted
- stems smooth, brown
- flowers in hanging clusters, yellow, early summer
- fruit are a hanging clusters of rounded nuts, subtended by silvery-brown
bract
- fruit and bract are smaller than T. americana
- bark gray-brown, generally rough with shallow ridges
- habit is densely pyramidal, very uniform
- tree is commonly used in street plantings
- tree is subject to aphid infestation, which causes a black coating
on the leaves/ground due to mold growth on sticky honeydew
View Tilia
cordata page in the UConn Plant Database
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