Linden Crimean seeds

Linden Crimean or dark green / Tilia x euchlora K.Koch. - southeast Europe (Crimea). Natural hybrid of unknown origin, with the participation of heart-shaped linden (T. cordata) and, probably, pubescent linden (T. dasystyla) or Caucasian linden (T. caucasica). Tree 12-16 (20) m in height. Crown 10-12 m in diameter, dense, round-ovate, low.

The bark is dark grey, light gray on young trees. Branches hanging or drooping, lower branches often falling to the ground. Shoots are yellowish-green, smooth, hairless. Leaves 5-11 cm long and 6-12 cm wide, rounded-ovate or rounded, unequally heart-shaped at the base, shortly pointed, with a very short and narrow pointed tip, regularly finely and finely serrate or serrate-toothed along the edge, dense, from above densely dark green, glossy shiny, glabrous, light green below, with barbules of hairs in the corners of the veins. Petioles 2.5-5 cm long. In autumn, the leaves turn yellow and remain on the tree until late autumn.

The flowers are yellowish-white, fragrant, collected in number of 3-7 pieces in half-umbels 5-9 cm long. Bract up to 8 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Nuts 0.6-0.8 cm in diameter, round-ovate, pointed, pubescent, pale brownish. It blooms in July, two weeks later than the heart-shaped linden. Fruits in August-September. It grows quite slowly. Relatively photophilous, highly drought-resistant and winter-hardy.

Resistant to pests and diseases. It is frost-resistant to minus 34 °C. In culture since 1860. One of the most decorative types. Widely spread.