Common Lime
Tilia × europaea L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 35 m
- wide
- 15 m
Malvaceae
Also called European Lime Tree, Common Linden
Formerly Tilia × acuminata, Tilia × banatica, Tilia × carnuntiae, Tilia × communis, and 9 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 35 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 15–50 m; Plants for a Future 35–35 m
- Spread
- 15 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Tília-europeia, Tília-comum
- Chinese
- 歐洲椴樹
- Estonian
- läänepärn, hollandi pärn
- Finnish
- Puistolehmus
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Parklind
- Slovak
- lipa obyčajná
- German
- Holländische Linde
- Russian
- Липа европейская
- Lithuanian
- Europinė liepa
- Catalan
- Til·ler comú
- Dutch
- Hollandse linde
- Swedish
- parklind
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tilia × europaea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.