name: Silver Linden

flavor_db_name_variants: silver linden

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Silver linden

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name_scientific: Tilia argentea

description: Tilia tomentosa (Silver Lime in the UK and Silver Linden in the US) is a species of Tilia native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Hungary and the Balkans east to western Turkey, occurring at moderate altitudes. It is a deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The leaves are alternately arranged, rounded to triangular-ovate, 4–13 cm long and broad with a 2.5–4 cm petiole, green and mostly hairless above, densely white tomentose with white hairs below, and with a coarsely toothed margin. The flowers are pale yellow, hermaphrodite, produced in cymes of three to ten in mid to late summer with a pale green subtending leafy bract; they have a strong scent and are pollinated by honeybees. The nectar however contains sugars which cannot be digested by other bees, to whom the tree is somewhat toxic. The fruit is a dry nut-like drupe 8–10 mm long, downy, and slightly ribbed.

itis_id: 845789

wikipedia_id: Tilia tomentosa

picture_file_name: 3.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 56367

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:25.000Z

legacy_id: 3

food_group: Herbs and Spices

food_subgroup: Herbs

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:15.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-17T16:19:45.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: null

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00003