Tilia cordata Mill. ?? Thank you. Saroj Kasaju
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:12 PM Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding for ID > Distributed as Tilia species- Bremen, Germany > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/tilia/tilia-species-1/bremen> > Group discussion at > Malvaceae week: Linde (Tilia) from Knoops Park in Bremen (google.com) > <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/WtMni6OmFD4> > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: nabha <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 12:59:24 AM UTC+5:30 > Subject: Malvaceae week: Linde (Tilia) from Knoops Park in Bremen > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > > Linde (Tilia) Tilioideae within the family Malvaceae. > Fotos taken on 15.6.2011 in Knoops Park in Bremen. The tree is 10 meter > (or higher?) > > The flowers have a very pleasent fragrance and attracts not only human > beings but many insects. > Wood is soft and is used in carving, used in churches especially for > Altars, for making furniture or veneers. > > Flowers attract honeybees and the goldcolor honey has typical flavour of > Linde. Dried flowers are used to prepare tea which is good against cold. > > Linden-tea with a little bit of lindenhoney, a good book to read, in a > rocking chair near the fireplace, listening to the crackling of the > fire. Winter can come. > > In former days there used to be at least one Linde in every village. The > village court was held under the lindentree, so the tree was called > court-tree. After an epidemy or a war a peace-linde was planted. In one > of the tree-walks I learnt that many existing lindentrees in our area > were planted to commemorate the german-french war in 1870/71. > In Schluttenbach in Southgermany there is one linde supposed to be more > than 1000 years old. > > Linde is a very popular avenue tree. and the road is typically called > "unter den Linden" (under the lindentrees) More or less in every city or > village there is one "unter den Linden". Lindenallee, atleast a > drugstore "linden apotheke". > One of the very famous "unter den Linden" is in Berlin. Festivals, > Demonstrations, Talks by politicians, public viewing Football, > everything takes place "unter den Linden" > Berlin-portal says: > "Unter den Linden is the oldest shopping street of the city and > stretches from the Brandenburg Gate to the castle bridge. The first > trees were planted in 1647 on order of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm." > > One finds many stories and poems dedicated to Linde. One very famous > volksong is "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum" and more > or less everyone can sing it. > > Regards > Nalini > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/d68cc552-480f-475f-88e1-ca624a8fef57n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/d68cc552-480f-475f-88e1-ca624a8fef57n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAEf%3DytSm5DKeXdLOYWSwcCVs2QdN1AzrnSTx9q0R0Jb589Sdjw%40mail.gmail.com.
