Dutch Lime | Tilia europaea
The Dutch lime is the result of an ancient cross between the Small-leaved Lime and the Summer Lime. There’s an impressive row of them in front of you here.
Because the small-leaved linden and the summer linden both occur in the wild in the Netherlands, this Dutch lime can spontaneously emerge in the forest. However, the crossing that you see beautifully lined up here originated in a nursery. You see the tree a lot at farms, because it gives a lot of shade. Do you also know the lime tree? So that is a Dutch linden that is pruned annually in a plane. It is also an easy tree: it grows almost everywhere. As it ages, the trunk gets considerable grooves and thicker knobs on which young twigs often grow.
