Tilia henryana

Henry’s linden or Henry’s lime is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to China (provinces of Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Shaanx). It can grow to about 25 m tall.

• Bark is pale gray, fissured; branchlets and buds are yellow, tomentose or glabrous.
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, orbicular, 6–10 cm long and 6–10 cm across, underside of leaf blade is densely yellow stellate tomentose or hairy only in vein axils, upper surface is glabrous; lateral veins are in 5–6 pairs, leaf base is cordate, sometimes oblique, margin serrate, apex broadly rounded; petioles are 3–5 cm long.
• A leaf-like floral bract 7–10 long and 1–1.3 cm across, underside yellow, upper face green, sometimes glabrous, base narrow, diverges from the flower stalk near the base; stalk of bract is 0.7–2 cm long. Flowers are tiny, almost white, fragrant, appearing in clusters of up to 30 in June.
• Fruit is obovoid, 5-angled, 7–9 mm, stellate hairy; shell woody, hard.