GLEBE TREES AND SHRUBS

Linden, Little leaf (Tilia)


Leaves
 
    
Opposite 492 Queen Elizabeth Drive and Fletcher's (Arboretum), May 10, 2008

   
232 First Ave., May 19, 2008
Linden and basswood generally have big toothed leaves, heart-shaped, with asymmetrical bases.
I find two helpful easily-noted features are the sudden change from a rounded leaf to a long drawn
out tip, and the elongated leafy bract.






Bark
    
Photos taken at Fletcher's (Arboretum), May 10, 2008 and 232 First Ave., May 19, 2008. 
Mature linden bark may have the deepest crevices of all trees in the Glebe.


   
Photo taken on north shore of Brown's Inlet March 19, 2009. Multiple trunks, very dark grey.
Identified by the remaining winged seed-leaves still present.

April 4, 2009: There is a row of linden on Fifth Avenue by the Mutchmor school fence. Maybe
because it was raining, the bark was noticeable. The younger bark was brown with bright white
linear streaks that look like tracks of falling tears. On somewhat older bark, these became wavy
linear striations, still whitish. On the oldest bark, these developed into the deep narrow crevices
that some linden have, almost knife-cuts.The buds remain chunky, tan, with few scales.


Buds
 
Photo taken on north shore of Brown's Inlet March 19, 2009. Identified by the remaining winged
seed-leaves still present.




Flowers
      
Left: June 26, 2008. Right: July 4, 2008.




Fruit

Photo taken on north shore of Brown's Inlet March 19, 2009. This is remnant of previous year's
fruit with typical winged fruit-leaf.




Similar species
List of trees and shrubs with alternate, simple, toothed leaves