Tilia amurensis seed

LATIN NAME: TILIA AMURENSIS

COMMON NAME: Amur Linden

The Amur linden shades the deciduous tree with the broad, heart-shaped, sharply toothed leaves and the small, fragrant, creamy-yellow flowers that open in the drooping clusters through the early summer, each cluster borne on the narrow, pale bract, the small, round, grey fruits following, the broad crown shading the ground beneath. It likes the sun or the light shade, and the deep, moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The heart-shaped leaves of the Amur linden give it a recognised place in the research on the cool-climate shade trees of the linden family, and the amurensis species appears in the studies of the broad-crown build and the flower nectar chemistry. The work looks at the way the clusters hang on the pale bracts, the fine honey flow, and the seed biology. The beekeepers value the nectar, and the growers of the street and park shade trees keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the park and the wide garden, the Amur linden shades the summer garden with the broad crown. The flowers feed the bees for the fine honey, the leaves serve the teas for the ages, and the tree makes the fine avenue and the specimen. It thrives in the deep, moist, well-drained, sunny or lightly shaded ground. Broad-crowned, fragrant and bee-fed.

To grow the Amur Linden from seed, sow the seeds into the drills of the open bed in the autumn, then cover them lightly, keep the drills gently watered, and the young trees push up in the spring.

Keep the drills gently watered, and give the young trees the open, sunny spot. The shade canopy comes over the years. Settle the young trees in the deep, moist ground, and the shade canopy will spread within a few seasons.

Tree up to 25(30) m. Bark dark gray, banded flaking in old trees, sometimes to a greater extent with deep furrows; bark of young branches glabrous, reddish-brown. Shoots first with silky white pubescence, soon falling.
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\nFoliage
\nPetioles are bare,3-5, 5 cm long. The leaves of fertile shoots are round or broadly ovate, 4.5—7 cm long and the same width, at the top of the elongated-pointed, with a more or less deeply cordate base (the leaves that are closer to the ends of the branches, sometimes have an almost truncated base), serrated, with more or less rounded teeth with a kind of impaled tip, which is a continuation of the leaf blade, naked on top (only in the beginning more or less densely covered with starry silky hairs), bottom bluish, bare, sometimes along the veins with scattered hairs and brown beards of tangled hairs in the corners between the veins. Leaves shoots shoots deltoid or rounded, up to 10-15 cm, with larger teeth, sometimes lobed leaves, with sparse beards in the corners of veins and scattered stellate hairs. Basal veins 6-7; veins of the second order 5-7; veins of the third order more or less winding and parallel. Seeds need complex stratification: warm stratification 90-120 days then cold stratification 90-120 days.