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LIME TREE. 



Family: TILIACEAE. 



Reproductive system: POLYANDRY, MONOGYNY. 



Our garden walks are almost all planted with broad-leaved lime trees, Tilia 

 platyphyllos, VENT. Their trunks grow very tall, but the trees usually are trimmed so that 

 their branches are denser and more numerous to provide better shade. The bark is thick 

 and creviced down below. The leaves are petiolate, rounded in a heart shape, unevenly 

 dentate on the margins and terminate in a point. They are soft and downy, especially on 

 the veins underneath. The flowers are located at the leaf axils. Several of them are 

 grouped together on a foliaceous membranous peduncle. The calyx is deciduous and has 

 five sections. The corolla has five petals that are bare at the base. The stamens are very 

 numerous. The ovary is superior, globular and surmounted by a filiform style. It turns 

 into a top-shaped nut divided into five compartments with five protruding sides of thick 

 hard material. Normally it contains only one or two seeds. 



FLOWERS: in May and June. 



MANGE: France, Sweden, and several other parts of Europe. 



NOMENCLATURE. German, der linde, der lindenbaume. English, the lime tree. 

 Spanish, tilo. Russian, lipa. Hungarian, hoars-fa. Tartar, djuga. luka. Arabic, uglamur. 



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USES. The wood has several domestic uses. Sculptors prefer it to poplar because it 

 carves better and is less susceptible to worm holes. Because it's very light it's used for 

 charcoal, which is most suitable 



