| Scientific Name: | Tilia tomentosa |
| Common Name: | silver linden |
| Family Name: | Malvaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Screening, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Pubescent, Orbicular, Double serrate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Jun |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Upright, deciduous tree; leaves orbicular, most blades 5-11cm long x 5-10cm wide, floppy, coarsely serrate, dark green top, underside grey tomentose, base cordate, petioles 2-4cm long; nutlets ovate, slightly ribbed, 5-8mm wide, bract oblong, about 10cm long x 2cm wide. Winter ID: bark smooth, gray very subtle vertical striping; twigs grey-tomentose; buds very large, 2 scales, pubescent, accessory buds; persistent nutlets. | |