Tilia intonsa

Tilia intonsa is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to western Szechwan in China. It can grow to about 20 m tall.

• young shoots densely covered with short, yellowish brown hairs, glabrous the second year.
• Leaves are roundish heart-shaped, often obliquely so, terminated by a short abrupt point, margins evenly and distinctly toothed, 3.8–10 cm long, rather less wide, glabrous above except for some minute hairs on the chief veins, grey-green and densely clothed with starry down beneath, especially on the midrib and the seven to nine pairs of lateral veins; there are also tufts of down in the vein-axils; leaf stalk is 2.5–5 cm long, downy./li>
• A leaf-like narrowly oblong floral bract, with a downy surface, especially on the back, diverges from the flower stalk near the base. Flowers are hermaphroditic (both male and female), solitary or three on the cyme, yellowish white
• Fruit is egg-shaped, 1 cm long, distinctly five-angled, covered with a pale close felt.