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American Basswood
Tilia americana
Distinguishing Features: Leaf bases are not even, large heart shaped leaves, buds are dark reddish-brown
- Type: Deciduous
- Form at maturity: Grows to around 70 feet tall, shape is oval to irregular
- Leaf: Alternate leaf arrangement, 4 to 8 inches long, broad heart shape, cordate or oblique leaf base, short acuminate tip, serrate margin, dark green above, pale green or silvery underneath, green or yellowish fall color
- Flower: Small, creamy white flowersheld in loose drooping clusters
- Bark: Gray-brown color, distinctive long, flat-topped ridges
- Fruit or Seed: 0.2 to 0.3 inch in diameter, whitish yellow, rounded fuzzy nutlet, held in clusters
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Tilia americana leaf
Tilia americana fruit
