Tilia mandshurica

The Manchurian lime or Manchurian linden is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to the provinces of Hebei, Heilongjiang, N Jiangsu, Jilin, Shandong and Liaoning in China, and to Japan, Korea and Russia (Siberia)]. It is a medium sized tree that typically grows to 20 m tall.

• Bark is dark gray, longitudinally fissured with age; branchlets are gray-white, stellate tomentose (covered with short hairs) when young; buds also are tomentose.
• Leaf is ovate-orbicular, 8–10 cm long and 7–9 cm across, densely gray stellate tomentosa on underside, glabrous above; lateral veins are in 5-7 pairs; leaf base is obliquely cordate or truncate, margin is dentate, teeth triangular, 1.5–5 mm long, with or without awns, 4–7 mm apart; leaf tip is sharply pointed, petiole is 2–5 cm long, stellate tomentose, glabrescent.
• A leaf-like floral bract that diverges from the flower stalk near the base is narrowly oblong or narrowly oblanceolate, 5–9 cm long and 1–2.4 cm wide, adnate to peduncle for up to 1/2 of length, base obtuse, apex rounded; leaf bottom has star-shaped fine hairs, leaf top is glabrous, stalk is 4–5 mm long.
• Flowers form cymes of 6–12 or more, 6–9 cm across; flower has 7–8 mm petals; stamens are as long as sepals; staminodes (stamens without anthers) are slightly smaller than petals; flowering is in July.
• Fruit is globose, ovoid or obovoid, weakly to prominently 5-angled, 7–9 mm across, ripening in September.