Tilia platyphyllos

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Internal ID UUID643ffed2d4190766798084
Scientific name Tilia platyphyllos
Authority Scop.
First published in Fl. Carniol., ed. 2. 1: 373. 1771

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Common products:
Wood used for carvings, woodcarving blanks, drawing boards, and ornamental veneers; honey produced from Tilia nectar.

Industrial and craft applications:
Soft, even-grained wood valued for turning, marquetry, modeling, and pattern making; suitable for interior joinery and paneling where low density and ease of working are advantageous.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
Linden honey, obtained from nectar of Tilia flowers, is produced and marketed as a monofloral honey.

Colorants and tanning:
No documented non-medicinal dye or tannin uses for this species.

Wood and fiber:
Wood of Tilia platyphyllos is harvested for carvings and fine craft work, as well as for panels and interior joinery; the wood is noted for its lightness and fine, uniform texture.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
No documented non-medicinal fragrance or cosmetic uses for this species.

Properties relevant to use:
Light, low-density wood with fine, diffuse-porous texture and generally straight grain; low shrinkage; easily worked and carved, taking fine detail.

Standards and regulation:
Timber of Tilia species is subject to the EU Timber Regulation (EU 995/2010) and the EU FLEGT/Licensing Scheme for illegally harvested wood; national forest and trade laws apply where applicable.

Sustainability and sourcing:
European provenance, including plantation and managed stand cultivation; harvest and trade are subject to CITES, EUTR/FLEGT, and local forestry regulations as applicable to the species and its products.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Tilia pyramidalis Host Fl. Austriaca 2: 61 (1827)
Tilia sphaerocarpa K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 473 (1869)
Tilia speciosa K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 472 (1869)
Tilia serratifolia K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 472 (1869)
Tilia spectabilis Host ex Bayer Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 42 (1862)
Tilia platyptera Court. Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(6): 11 (1835)
Tilia preslii Ortmann Nomencl. Bot. : 24 (1831)
Tilia tenuifolia Host Fl. Austriaca 2: 61 (1827)
Tilia pilosa C.Presl Prir. Rostlin 2: 240 (1825)
Tilia tucekii Opiz Lotos 4: 103 (1854)
Tilia variegata K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 472 (1869)
Tilia turbinata K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 473 (1869)
Tilia trichoclados Borbás Oesterr. Bot. Z. 38: 325 (1888)
Tilia translucens Opiz ex Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur. : 131 (1878)
Tilia mellita C.Presl ex Bayer Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 36 (1862)
Tilia lucida K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 472 (1869)
Tilia macropoda Court. Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(6): 10 (1835)
Tilia macrocarpa K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 473 (1869)
Tilia ovata Ortmann Flora 18: 502 (1835)
Tilia pauciflora Hayne Getreue Darstell. Gew. 3: t. 48 (1813)
Tilia mollis Spach Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 2, 2: 336 (1834)
Tilia oblongata Court. Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(6): 12 (1835)
Tilia obliqua Opiz Naturalientausch 11: 462 (1826)
Tilia mutabilis Host Fl. Austriaca 2: 60 (1827)
Tilia corymbosa Ortmann Nomencl. Bot. : 25 (1831)
Tilia corylifolia Host Fl. Austriaca 2: 59 (1827)
Tilia collivaga Heinr.Braun ex V.Engl. Monogr. Tilia : 97 (1909)
Tilia cucullata Jacq. ex V.Engl. Monogr. Tilia : 97 (1909)
Tilia bicuspidata Court. Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(6): 13 (1835)
Tilia barbata Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 3: 201 (1812)
Tilia apiculata Court Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(6): 15 (1835)
Tilia aspleniifolia Bayer Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 41 (1862)
Tilia hostiana Borbás Oesterr. Bot. Z. 37: 297 (1887)
Tilia haringiana Dörfl. Exsicc. (Herb. Norm.) 1899: n.º 3813 (1899)
Tilia handsworthiensis V.Engl. Monogr. Tilia : 97 (1909)
Tilia filicifolia V.Engl. Monogr. Tilia : 98 (1909)
Tilia euryptera Borbás Oesterr. Bot. Z. 41: 423 (1891)
Tilia affinis Opiz Naturalientausch 11: 461 (1826)
Tilia platyphyllos var. subangulata (Borbás) Geerinck in Taxonomania 6: 8 (2002).
Tilia rubra var. praecox (Host) V.Engl. Monogr. Tilia 103. 1909

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Language Common/alternative name
English large-leaved lime
English large-leaved linden
English largeleaf linden
Spanish tilo de hoja ancha
Spanish aveneiro blanco
Spanish tilo comun
Spanish tilo de hoja grande
Arabic الزيزفون
Arabic جير كبير الأوراق
Arabic تيليا
Arabic شاي تيليو
Arabic شاي زيزفون
Arabic الزيزفون، جير كبير الأوراق
Azerbaijani enliyarpaq cökə
Belarusian Ліпа буйналістая
Bulgarian едролистна липа
Bulgarian Едролистна липа
Catalan tell de fulla grossa
Catalan tell de fulla gran
Czech lípa velkolistá
Czech lípa širokolistá
Czech lípa širolistá
Welsh pisgwydden dail mawr
Danish storbladet lind
German sommer-linde
German sommerlinde
German großblättrige linde
Estonian suurelehine pärn
Basque ezki hostozabal
Persian نمدار برگدرش
Persian نمدار برگ درشت
Persian نمدار برگدرشت
Finnish isolehtilehmus
French tilleul à grandes feuilles
French tilleul à larges feuilles
French tilleul à feuilles larges
French tilleul a grandes feuilles
Galician tileiro de folla grande
Hebrew טיליה אירופית
Hebrew טיליה אירופאית
Hebrew טיליה רחבת עלה
Upper Sorbian zažna lipa
Hungarian nagylevelű hárs
Icelandic fagurlind
Italian tiglio nostrale
Japanese ナツボダイジュ
lb summerlann
Lithuanian didžialapė liepa
Latvian platlapu liepa
Macedonian големолисна липа
Macedonian крупнолисна липа
nap téglia
Norwegian Bokmål storlind
Dutch zomerlinde
Dutch grootbladige linde
Polish lipa szerokolistna
Polish lipa wielkolistna
Romansh tigl da stad
Romanian tei cu frunza mare
Russian Липа плосколистная
Russian Липа крупнолистная
Slovak lipa veľkolistá
Slovenian navadna lipa
Slovenian lipa
Serbian Крупнолисна липа
Swedish bohuslind
Turkish büyük yapraklı ıhlamur
Ukrainian Липа широколиста
Ukrainian Липа великолисна
Vietnamese đoạn lá to
Walloon tiyoû ås grandès foyes
Chinese 阔叶椴
Chinese 闊葉椴

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Name Authority First published in
Tilia platyphyllos subsp. cordifolia (Besser) C.K.Schneid. Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 376. 1909 (1909)
Tilia platyphyllos subsp. corinthiaca (Bosc ex K.Koch) Pigott Edinburgh J. Bot. 59(2): 245 (2002).
Tilia platyphyllos subsp. pseudorubra C.K.Schneid. Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 378. 1909 (1909)
Tilia platyphyllos subsp. platyphyllos
Tilia platyphyllos subsp. sitnensis (Kmet) Domin Preslia 13-15: 151 (1935)

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000456948
UNII 79P1A6D77D
Canadensys 6643
USDA Plants TIPL
UConn 506
Tropicos 32200188
INPN 126650
Flora of Italy 3088
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332109-2
The Plant List kew-2517523
Missouri Botanical Garden 287368
Open Tree Of Life 1067735
NCBI Taxonomy 82423
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000003127
Nature Serve 2.158073
IUCN Red List 203361
IPNI 835522-1
iNaturalist 169761
GBIF 3152048
Freebase /m/0290sw
EPPO TILPL
EOL 584812
Elurikkus 7941
USDA GRIN 36695
Wikipedia Tilia_platyphyllos

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Commodity risk assessment of Tilia cordata and Tilia platyphyllos plants from the UK Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Battisti A, Mas H, Rigling D, Faccoli M, Mikulová A, Mosbach‐Schulz O, Stergulc F, Streissl F, Gonthier P EFSA J 03-May-2024
PMCID:PMC11066761
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8803
PMID:38707495
Integrative Nursing Interventions for Cancer-Related Symptoms in Oncology Inpatients: Results of a Descriptive Pilot Study Raiber L, Raff C, Thiele J, Kramer K Integr Cancer Ther 29-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11057344
doi:10.1177/15347354241239930
PMID:38680047
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) from Alentejo (South Portugal)—Ethnobotany and Potential Industrial Use Póvoa O, Farinha N, Lopes V, Machado AM, Figueiredo AC Foods 19-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10969941
doi:10.3390/foods13060929
PMID:38540919
Saving the local tradition: ethnobotanical survey on the use of plants in Bologna district (Italy) Chiocchio I, Marincich L, Mandrone M, Trincia S, Tarozzi C, Poli F J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 12-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10936038
doi:10.1186/s13002-024-00664-1
PMID:38475780
Commodity risk assessment of Ligustrum ovalifolium and Ligustrum vulgare plants from the UK Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Battisti A, Mas H, Rigling D, Faccoli M, Mikulová A, Mosbach‐Schulz O, Stergulc F, Streissl F, Gonthier P EFSA J 07-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10918603
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8648
PMID:38455154
The effect of moisture content over the fibre saturation points on the impact strength of wood Hassan Vand M, Tippner J R Soc Open Sci 28-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10898978
doi:10.1098/rsos.231685
PMID:38420630
Description, identification, and growth of Tuber borchii Vittad. mycorrhized Pinus sylvestris L. seedlings on different lime contents Mrak T, Grebenc T, Friedrich S, Münzenberger B Mycorrhiza 18-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10998771
doi:10.1007/s00572-023-01135-3
PMID:38236414
Commodity risk assessment of Corylus avellana plants from the UK Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Battisti A, Mas H, Rigling D, Faccoli M, Mikulová A, Mosbach‐Schulz O, Stergulc F, Streissl F, Gonthier P EFSA J 12-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10784871
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8495
PMID:38222930
Ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal research into medicinal plants in the Mt Stara Planina region (south-eastern Serbia, Western Balkans) Jarić S, Kostić O, Miletić Z, Marković M, Sekulić D, Mitrović M, Pavlović P J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 10-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10782642
doi:10.1186/s13002-024-00647-2
PMID:38200599
Forest Disturbance Monitoring Using Cloud-Based Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning Molnár T, Király G J Imaging 05-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10817504
doi:10.3390/jimaging10010014
PMID:38248999
Forest carbon stock development following extreme drought-induced dieback of coniferous stands in Central Europe: a CBM-CFS3 model application Cienciala E, Melichar J Carbon Balance Manag 03-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10765692
doi:10.1186/s13021-023-00246-w
PMID:38170292
Seasonal Changes in Nycthemeral Availability of Sympatric Temperate Mixed Forest Rodents: The Predators’ Perspective Probst R, Probst R Life (Basel) 27-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10817278
doi:10.3390/life14010045
PMID:38255659
Reference-Based Restriction-Site-Associated DNA Sequencing Data Are Useful for Species Delineation in a Recently Diverged Asexually Reproducing Species Complex (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) Barcenas-Peña A, Divakar PK, Crespo A, Nuñez-Zapata J, Lumbsch HT, Grewe F J Fungi (Basel) 09-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10744373
doi:10.3390/jof9121180
PMID:38132781
Seamless integration of sewer system topology and tree location data: An algorithm to diagnose the potential impact of tree roots on pipes and propose rearrangement solutions Martínez D, Bergillos S, Corominas L, Comas-Cufí M, Calle E Heliyon 07-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10758799
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23382
PMID:38169737
Temporal variation of allergenic potential in urban parks during the vegetation period: a case study from Bratislava, Slovakia Zahradníková E, Rendeková A, Ščevková J Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 05-Dec-2023
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doi:10.1007/s11356-023-31137-9
PMID:38052730

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Hydrocarbons / Saturated hydrocarbons / Alkanes
Docosane 12405 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 310.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Heneicosane 12403 Click to see 296.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Heptacosane 11636 Click to see 380.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Nonacosane 12409 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 408.80 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Pentacosane 12406 Click to see 352.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Tetracosane 12592 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 338.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Tricosane 12534 Click to see CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 324.60 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Fatty acids and conjugates / Long-chain fatty acids
Myristic Acid 11005 Click to see 228.37 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Oleic Acid 445639 Click to see 282.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1753-4887.1965.TB02073.X
Palmitic Acid 985 Click to see 256.42 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1753-4887.1965.TB02073.X
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Fatty acids and conjugates / Medium-chain fatty acids
Capric Acid 2969 Click to see CCCCCCCCCC(=O)O 172.26 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Lauric Acid 3893 Click to see 200.32 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Nonanoic Acid 8158 Click to see CCCCCCCCC(=O)O 158.24 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Fatty Acyls / Lineolic acids and derivatives
Linoleic Acid 5280450 Click to see 280.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1753-4887.1965.TB02073.X
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Diterpenoids / Acyclic diterpenoids
5,9,13-Pentadecatrien-2-one, 6,10,14-trimethyl- 61206 Click to see 262.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
Farnesyl acetone 1711945 Click to see 262.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Diterpenoids / Kaurane diterpenoids
(-)-Kaur-16-ene 520687 Click to see 272.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158
(4R,9R,10S)-5,5,9-trimethyl-14-methylidenetetracyclo[11.2.1.01,10.04,9]hexadecane 12304784 Click to see 272.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1999.9701158

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