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small-leaved lime

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Noun1.small-leaved lime - large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental
linden tree, basswood, lime tree, linden, lime - any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber


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Planted between 2006-08 in memory of Katherine Courts, who died tragically on March 10, 2006, there are more than 2000 trees and shrubs with species including oak, small-leaved lime, willows and rowan, with hazel, holly and Guelder-rose.
Snaking like a dainty, rusted rollercoaster through Brown's lush copse, the walkway will lift 3,000 visitors a day 18 metres into the air, where they can wander at leisure for 200 metres through the American pin oaks and small-leaved limes, hoping to spot a purple hairstreak butterfly or a greater spotted woodpecker - or at the very least a squirrel.
The small-leaved limes were found by countryside officers from Redcar and Cleveland Council and Martin Allen, of Middlesbrough's Wildflower Ark project.
 
 
 
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