Linden largeleaf seeds

Large-leaved linden or Broad-leaved linden / Tilia platyphyllos

It is a deciduous tree of the Linden genus of the Malvaceae family. Tree up to 20-30 meters tall, with a dense, broad-pyramidal crown, with reddish-brown, fluffy, rarely bare young shoots.

Buds are reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves up to 14 centimeters, rounded ovate, dark green above, glabrous, paler below, with tufts of light hairs in the corners of the veins, petioles 2-6 centimeters long. The leaves bloom two weeks later than the small-leaved linden.

Large-leaved linden is a good honey plant and pollen plant. The flowers are yellowish-creamy, larger than those of small-leaved linden, but in smaller numbers in the inflorescence (2-5), blooms two weeks earlier than small-leaved linden, in early June. In one flower of large-leaved linden, 11.54 mg of nectar is released. Honey productivity is 800-900 kg/ha, up to 90-100 kg of pollen can be collected per hectare of linden. The use of large-leaved linden is promising for beekeeping, not only in terms of increasing nectar reserves, but also increasing the duration of the flow.