Species profile
Redmond Basswood
Tilia americana
3,090 on Toronto's streets — 0.45% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms Jun 15 – Jun 30: fragrant pale-yellow, like cordata but bigger leaves
🍁 Fall colour Oct 1 – Oct 20: pale yellow
Toronto history — American basswood — native. Much less planted than its European cousin but ecologically superior.
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae. It is native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska. It is the sole representative of its genus in the Western Hemisphere, assuming T. caroliniana is treated as a subspecies or loca
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 20m high by 10m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
Notable specimens
- 160 cm DBH at 12 PAGE AVE NORTH YORK · view →
- 140 cm DBH at 16 FRITH RD · view →
- 128 cm DBH at 132 BEECHWOOD AVE NORTH YORK · view →
- 123 cm DBH at 71 PARK LANE CRCL · view →
- 121 cm DBH at 10 ST MARGARETS DR · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 18 ROSALIE AVE · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 354 BURNHAMTHORPE RD · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 14 SHAMOKIN DR · view →