Created By: FSRP Tree Tenders
About these specimens: Having been pruned recently, these six lindens located on the park’s south side bordering Delancey Street are worth checking out. In a park that boasts many mature trees, these lindens are its nicest specimens.
Leaf arrangement: alternate
Leaf type – a lopsided heart with sharp even teeth at edges and pointed tip, up to 10” long
Bark: Gray to brown, sometimes with silvery highlights, when mature breaking into long, narrow flat-topped scaly ridges
Flowers: fragrant, pale-yellow dangling clusters on hockey-stick shaped bracts.
Fruit: bracts bear a group of 1⁄4” nutlets. The entire structure falls in winter and the bract carries the nutlets like a wing on the breeze.
Average mature size in city: 30-60’ tall
Origin: native to northeast of the United States and Canada
Other notable features: The fragrant flowers are preferred by honeybees. For this reason, the tree is sometimes called bee-tree.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Center City West Tree Stroll
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