Tilia mongolica

The Japanese lime or Japanese linden is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to the provinces of Hebei, Henan, west Liaoning, Nei Mongol and Shanxi in China, and Mongolia,eastern Russia (Siberia) and North Korea. It is a medium sized tree that typically grows to 25 m tall.

• Bark is grey, shallowly fissured after about 40 years; twigs are slender, glabrous, becoming red in sun; buds have 2 bud scales which are smooth and hairless.
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternated, deltoid, 3.5–6.5 cm long and 3.5–6 cm broad, variably and jaggedly toothed and sometimes lobed, green beneath with small axillary tufts of red-brown hair.
• Leaf-like floral bracts on the flower stocks are 3.5–7 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm broad, on stalks close to 1 cm long. Flowers are held erect above the leaves, in cymes branched 1–5 times, with 5–38 flowers. Staminodes are present.
• Fruit is a round, smooth capsule 6–7 cm long and 4–5 mm broad; with a very short brown fuzzy hair.