driveTREEmap – Tree 8

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Directions

Walk one block north up Napier until you get to Salisbury Drive. Turn right here, not before glancing further up Napier to notice the continuation of Horse Chestnuts onwards and upwards. Walk (south now) until you reach another park on your left. This is Victoria Park and here you will often find locals hanging out talking, playing board games or botchi ball. There might be a little smoking going on here too or else it’s a real life skunk! In additional you will see a handful of our next featured tree encasing the park: The American Linden.

A Linden on the corner of another great green space

American Linden

Proper Name: Tilia americana
Common Name: American Linden, Basswood or Lime

Description: Large deciduous tree with big heart-shaped leaves with toothed edge and pointed tip. Yellow, fragrant, hanging flowers in summer turn to seed pods in autumn which harden. Each contains a single seed.

Defining Feature: The distinctive fruit stalk holding a group of round seed pods, is always attached to an oblong bract (type of leaf).

Leaf ID

Little balls hanging with a bat then it’s a Linden.

Name Roots

Even though this tree in commonly referred to as Lime the name and tree have nothing to do with the fruit. Linden comes from ‘Lime-wood’ and Lime comes from the Old English Lim. Tilia is thought to have its origins in Greek where the word may have meant broad perhaps in reference to the wideness of the leaves. americana means this species is native to america.

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