![]() ![]() Tilia species are mostly large, deciduous trees, reaching typically 20 to 40 m (65 to 130 ft) tall, with oblique-cordate leaves 6 to 20 cm ( 2 + 1⁄ 4 to 7 + 3⁄ 4 in) across. ![]() Under the Cronquist classification system, this genus was placed in the family Tiliaceae, but genetic research summarised by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has resulted in the incorporation of this genus, and of most of the previous family, into the Malvaceae. The genus occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but the greatest species diversity is found in Asia. In Britain and Ireland they are commonly called lime trees, although they are not related to the tree that produces the citrus fruit lime. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Tilia tomentosa, cultivated at the Morton Arboretum near Chicago ![]()
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