A European lime prized for its ornamental beauty and fragrant flowering.
More compact and regular than the common lime, the small-leaved lime is now the favourite for street planting: a tidy pyramidal crown, excellent tolerance of pruning, and the same honeyed flowering that makes lime-lined streets irresistible in June.
It is among Europe's longest-lived trees: some specimens exceed a thousand years. Medieval masters carved madonnas and altarpieces from its soft, uniform wood, and Grinling Gibbons his celebrated sculptures.
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