Tilia chingiana

Tilia chingiana is in the mallow or Malvaceae family, native to China (provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and of Zhejiang). It is a smaller tree, reaching a height of about 15 m.

• Bark smooth, grey; buds are light green, plump, turning red later in the season.
• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, broadly ovate, 5–10 long and 4–9 cm across, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with patchy stellate hairs, eroding to leave only a few hairs in the vein axils; leaf has 6–7 secondary veins on each side of the midvein; base is obliquely truncate or cordate, margins somewhat coarsely serrate, apex acuminate or acute; petiole is 2.5–4 cm long, sparsely pubescent to glabrous.
• Flowers hang below leaf-like floral bracts 7–9 cm long, narrowly oblanceolate, pubescent on both surfaces; flower clusters are 5–8 cm long, with 4–10 flowers; flowers are hermaphroditic (male and female parts on same flower), with numerous stamens and a protruding pistil remaining after petals have fallen off.
• Fruit is ovate, 0.9 cm long, tomentose, sometimes with a pistil still protruding from the end; flowering is from June to July in China.