Tilia maximowicziana

Tilia maximowicziana is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to northern Honshu and to Hokkaido in Japan. It is a medium sized tree.

• Bark is dark grey, developing wide flat-topped ridges when mature; twigs are densely covered in grey and red-brown stellate hairs; buds have 1 main scale and another just visible, with brown and grey tomentum; buds redden as summer progresses.
• Leaves are semi-round, 7.5–12.5 cm long and 7–12 cm across, dark green above, grey-green beneath with moderately sparse stellate hairs (4–12 arms, 8 being the commonest number); tufts of brown axillary hairs are usually visible; teeth are long, triangular, with short 0.2–1 mm tips; stalks have white stellate hairs.
• Floral bracts on the flower stalks near the base are 7.5–12.5 cm long and 1.1–2.5 cm across, with dense white hairs on their veins. Inflorescences (flowers) are drooping, in cymes of 15–20 flowers; flowers are cup-shaped, strongly scented; staminodes (stamens without anthers) are present.
• Fruit is rounded, 9-10 mm long and 7–8 mm wide, weakly ribbed. The shell tomentose and quite fragile.