Weeping Silver Lime

Tilia x petiolaris

Lime family (Tiliaceae)

Origin: Probably a garden hybrid

Description: Tree 20-35m high with a domed crown of upwardly arching main branches, the smaller branches weeping. Bark silvery grey and smooth, becoming darker and fissured with age. Leaves alternate, heart-shaped, toothed and densely white hairy beneath. Flowers in pendulous clusters of 4 to 8 attached to an oblong, wing-like bract, creamy at first, becoming yellow, sweet-scented. Fruit globose, warty, with 5 longitudinal ridges.

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Comments: Of uncertain origin but thought to be a hybrid with Silver lime as one parent. The flowers contain a sugar which attracts but intoxicates bumble bees which are often found lying under the tree in great numbers.

Similar trees:

• Other limes, especially silver lime