The silver linden tree (Tilia tomentosa), also Hungarian silver linden tree mentioned, is up to 30 a meter large tree with grey berindetem trunk.

Occurrence

The silver linden tree is resident in South-east Europe and in small Asia. In Central Europe it is used predominantly as Zierbaum, planted very frequently in large parks and as road-side tree. In the urban climate of the warm Stromauen it prospers well.

Description

The silver linden tree reaches a stature height of approximately 25 meters with up to 1 m master diameter. The crust is darkly grey green. With young trees the crust touched brownishly, with old trees forms a network of smooth, flat borders and furrows.

The crown of tree is hemispheric to eirund, curved with old trees broadly with young trees with rigidly upright branches, which work nearly "„broom-like "“.

The impulses are closely weissfilzig, darkly later above grey-green, down lightgreen. They run somewhat in the zigzag course. The side impulses are short and are away right-angled. The buds are eggly-shaped, green to brown, behaart and 6 to 8 mm long. The sheets are roundish but clearly asymmetrically inclined at the basis. They are sawed shank with nearly triangular teeth. The sheets are thickly, above dark green and somewhat runzelig, on the lower surface light-grey and filzig. The sheets are about 12 cm long and 10 cm broad and sit at 5 cm a long handle.

The blooms hang to 7 to 10 grouped in hanging Trugdolden and appear toward at the end of July, thus relatively late. They sit at 3 cm long handles and smell strongly. The obovate high sheet is yellowish green and to 9 cm long. The 8 to 10 mm large fruit is thickly and easily serrated.

Use

In the Balkans the silver linden tree is a popular forest tree.

Ecology

The of the silver linden tree can be digested not by Central European kinds of bee, since the enzyme for it is missing to them, and leads to the death of the honey bees.

The acceptance that the Nektar of the silver linden trees for bees and Hummeln is poisonous and these die to it have themselves as wrong put out. The insects found dead under the blooms are bees and Hummeln of a generation, which die at present the silver linden tree bloom. Since few other trees flower at this time, are increase here dead bees and Hummeln.

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