Tilia endochrysea

Tilia endochrysea is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to China (provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang). It can grow to about 20 m tall.

• Bark is grayish when young, developing almost black vertical ridges; twigs are 2–4 mm thick, bright green, glabrous, sometimes with a bluish waxy bloom; bud is no thicker than the shoot, almost spherical, glabrous, with 2 bud scales.
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, flushing crimson, 7–13.5 cm long and 5–11 cm across, ovate to almost triangular; upper surface dark, shiny green, glabrous, lower surface pale green or glaucous, glabrous or covered with reddish stellate hair; margins are sometimes entire or with large, irregular, spiky teeth or lobes; petioles are relatively short, glabrous, 2.5–6 cm long.
• A leaf-like floral bract 6.5–13 long and 1.5–3 cm across diverges from the flower stalk near the base, often broadest towards each end; stalk of bract to 3 cm long. Flowers are small yellow-green hermaphroditic, produced in clusters of 5-11 in early summer, with a leafy yellow-green subtending bract below the flowers (unlike often being below the bract in some linden species).
• Fruit is round, initially fleshy, with a fragile wall which splits longitudinally into five segments to release the ripe seeds.