Tilia oliveri

Tilia oliveri is in the mallow or Malvaceae family and is native to the provinces of Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi and Sichuan in China. It is a medium sized tree that typically grows to 26 m tall.

• Bark is medium gray, smooth with shallow furrows and rounded ridges developing with age; branchlets are slender, glabrous; winter buds are large (9 mm), glabrous or hairy, with 1 bud scale and a part of a second scale visible.
• Leaves are broadly elliptic, ovate-orbicular or triangular-ovate, 6–12 cm long and 4.5–10 cm broad, with a pale, abruptly pointed tip 0.3–1.1 mm long; teeth are well-spaced and asymmetric; leaf’s upper surface is mid-green, glabrous; lower surface is densely covered with a white tomentum of stellate hairs which have mostly 8 or 16 arms; petiole is 1.5–5 cm long.
• Leaf-like floral bracts on the flower stocks are large (6–11 cm long and 0.9–2.5 cm across), almost stalkless, pale green with white stellate tomentum on both surfaces. Flowers are drooping, with 7–20 per cluster; staminodes (stamens without anthers) are present; ripening is June-August.
• Fruit is obovoid, globose, or ellipsoid, 0.88-1.3 cm long, covered by gray-white tomentose; shell is hard; ripening is August-September.