American Linden
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Scientific name : Tilia Americana
Common Names: Basswood, American Basswood and Lime
Angiosperm or Gymnosperm: Angiosperm
Natural Habitat: It is abundant throughout the North Eastern United States and Ontario. They thrive in moist deciduous forest and prefer calcareous sites and a high soil pH.
Leaf Pattern: alternate, simple, serrate, cordate; ovate, pinnate, deciduous, 4-8 inches, green
Germination Process: It likes warm weather and mixed amounts of sunshine and shade.
How it pollinates and spreads: It is spread and pollinated by the insects that gather the dropped seeds in their mouths and take them somewhere else where they drop them.
Animals and plants that occur: Mice, Squirrels and Chipmunks.
Type of bark: gray-brown long with flat top ridges.
Human Use: The wood is used for carving, musical instruments, woodenware, toys, pulp, furniture and boxes. Native Americans used the fibrous inner bark for making rope, thongs, baskets and mats.
Common Names: Basswood, American Basswood and Lime
Angiosperm or Gymnosperm: Angiosperm
Natural Habitat: It is abundant throughout the North Eastern United States and Ontario. They thrive in moist deciduous forest and prefer calcareous sites and a high soil pH.
Leaf Pattern: alternate, simple, serrate, cordate; ovate, pinnate, deciduous, 4-8 inches, green
Germination Process: It likes warm weather and mixed amounts of sunshine and shade.
How it pollinates and spreads: It is spread and pollinated by the insects that gather the dropped seeds in their mouths and take them somewhere else where they drop them.
Animals and plants that occur: Mice, Squirrels and Chipmunks.
Type of bark: gray-brown long with flat top ridges.
Human Use: The wood is used for carving, musical instruments, woodenware, toys, pulp, furniture and boxes. Native Americans used the fibrous inner bark for making rope, thongs, baskets and mats.
Creative Writing
The average height for a tree of this species is 60-80 ft which is about the same size as a Southern Magnolia. When you look at the bark of the tree called American Linden it looks like there are many different canyons but really it is just the fact that the bark is one part where it sticks out on various parts of the tree. The bark is very rough like when you rub your hand over a piece of really gritty sandpaper. When you look at the leaves of the American Linden they are more of a fat oval shape with very pokey sides. The leaves are a bright green with the vanes going down at angles to the bottom point of the leaf.
References
University of Illnios Extention. Retrieved from http://urbanext.illinois.edu/treeselector/detail_plant.cfm?PlantID=276
Cold Stream Farm. Retrieved from http://www.coldstreamfarm.net/p-111-american-basswood-tilia-americana.aspx
Cold Stream Farm. Retrieved from http://www.coldstreamfarm.net/p-111-american-basswood-tilia-americana.aspx