Species profile
Littleleaf Linden
Tilia cordata
21,379 on Toronto's streets — 3.10% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms Jun 18 – Jul 2: small fragrant yellow, bees lose their minds
🍁 Fall colour Oct 5 – Oct 25: pale yellow
Toronto history — European littleleaf linden. A reliable shade-tree workhorse the city has planted steadily for decades. Fragrant yellow blooms in June are the main seasonal attraction.
Tilia cordata, the small-leaved lime or small-leaved linden, is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Europe. Its other common names include little-leaf or littleleaf linden, or traditionally in South East England, pry or pry tree. Its range extends from Britain through mainland Europe to the Caucasus and western Asia. In the south of its range it is restricted to high eleva
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Bendale-Glen Andrew | 673 |
| Milliken | 653 |
| Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan | 549 |
| Agincourt North | 520 |
| Woburn North | 494 |
| Steeles | 479 |
| Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview | 422 |
| York University Heights | 412 |
Notable specimens
- 185 cm DBH at 20 CHANTILLY GDNS · view →
- 160 cm DBH at 79 BAYCREST AVE · view →
- 155 cm DBH at 18 WATERFIELD DR · view →
- 150 cm DBH at 105 WELLS HILL AVE · view →
- 148 cm DBH at 86 NORTH HEIGHTS RD · view →
- 147 cm DBH at 35 CYNTHIA RD · view →
- 143 cm DBH at 8 FREEMAN ST · view →
- 136 cm DBH at 11 EDILOU DR · view →