American Linden
Kendall Hill Nursery grows and offers the American Linden tree. It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree reaching a height of 60 to 120 feet with a trunk diameter of 3 to 4 feet at maturity. The crown is domed, the branches spreading, often pendulous. The bark is gray to light brown, with narrow, well defined fissures. The roots are large, deep, and spreading. The twigs are smooth, reddish-green, becoming light gray in their second year, finally dark brown or brownish gray, marked with dark wart-like excrescences. The leaves are nearly heart shaped, long and broad, with a coarsely serrated margin. They open from the bud a pale green and downy, and when full grown are dark green, smooth, shining above, paler beneath, with tufts of rusty brown hairs. The fall color is yellow-green to yellow. The flowers are small, fragrant, yellowisg-white arranged in drooping clusters. Flowering is in early to mid-summer providing abundant nectar for insects, especially bees, which produce an excellent honey with a mildly spicy flavor from the blossoms. Bark of young trees and branches have a smooth, light gray bark, and bark of larger trunks is heavily fissured and darker. The species is recommended as an ornamental tree when the mass of foliage or a deep shade is desired. The American Linden can be successfully grown in Zones 4 to 7.
- General Description:
- • Trunk Diameter of 3’ to 4’ at Maturity
- • Leaves Maintain Deep Shade
- • Grows 60' to over 100'
- • Zones 4 to 7
If you would like more information on American Lindens please contact Kendall Hill Nursery.