Lime #treetrail Tilia #Lime
Standing prominently outside the library this is a huge specimen of lime, a deciduous broadleaved tree which is native to the UK and parts of Europe. With some of its lower branches removed you can see the trunk in all its glory. Get close up and you will notice its pale grey bark is irregularly ridged with occasional large ‘burrs’ as this one has about three metres up the trunk.
In city locations as here, the large, dark green, heart-shaped leaves make lime a popular shade tree. It also has year-round interest. The tree produces its small, sweetly scented white flowers in June and July. The scent is so strong you can sometimes smell it tens of metres away. Bees are particularly drawn to limes and apparently find the nectar so delicious that they can fall to the ground intoxicated! After the blossom has faded and fallen, the nut-like fruit, about the size of a pea, will hang on the tree in clusters until they are lost in autumn.
Lime #treetrail Tilia #Lime
Standing prominently outside the library this is a huge specimen of lime, a deciduous broadleaved tree which is native to the UK and parts of Europe. With some of its lower branches removed you can see the trunk in all its glory. Get close up and you will notice its pale grey bark is irregularly ridged with occasional large ‘burrs’ as this one has about three metres up the trunk.
In city locations as here, the large, dark green, heart-shaped leaves make lime a popular shade tree. It also has year-round interest. The tree produces its small, sweetly scented white flowers in June and July. The scent is so strong you can sometimes smell it tens of metres away. Bees are particularly drawn to limes and apparently find the nectar so delicious that they can fall to the ground intoxicated! After the blossom has faded and fallen, the nut-like fruit, about the size of a pea, will hang on the tree in clusters until they are lost in autumn.