Large-Leaved Lime - Tilia platyphyllos
Large-leaved Lime can grow up to 35 metres tall. Leaves are 6-11 cm, hairy on the underside, especially on the veins, with many off-white hairs (not just in the leaf axils) and have a sharply toothed margin and heart-shaped base. The young twigs are hairy. Flower cymes pendent.
Other limes
ID from mature crown leaves - young leaves are often atypical.
Photos of mature leaf undersides
Large-leaved Lime is cultivated as an ornamental in parks and gardens, although not as commonly as Tilia × europaea (Common Lime) and only occurs occasionally as a naturalised plant.
In flower during June.
Deciduous.
It has a fairly widespread distribution in Britain.
Occasional as a planted tree in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 13 of the 617 tetrads.
Saharima Roenisch
Beacon Hill Country Park
16 August 2018
David Nicholls
Hedge opp. Cloud Wood
20 May 2020
David Nicholls
Hedge opp. Cloud Wood
20 May 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Large-leaved Lime
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Malvales
- Family:
- Malvaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 08/06/2018 (Schou, Bertil)
- Last record:
- 26/09/2023 (Markham, Marian)
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David Nicholls
Hedge opp. Cloud Wood
20 May 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Beacon Hill Country Park
16 August 2018
