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Tilia sapata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Tracheophytes
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Tilia
Species: T. sapata
Binomial name
Tilia sapata
Липа сирѹпьска

Habitatiotiliæsapatæ.png
Sweet Linden range

Tilia sapata (Sweet Linden IPA: /swit ˈlɪ̈n.dn̩/; Tilia sapata, Липа сирѹпьска; Yaharan: Hínänyähuw /ˈɦɪ̈nɑnjɑɦu(ʊ̯)/) is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to Lower Boroso ranging from the southern ranges of Upper Yahara and Yaxarhayut as far north as the central regions of the Confederation of Lower Boroso. It is commonly cultivated for its voluminous and sweet sap, which is then made into syrup and various other sweeteners.

Description

The Sweet Linden is a medium-to-large sized deciduous tree that grows to heights ranging from eighteen to thirty-six meters with a trunk diameter of one to one and a half meters. It is a quick-growing hardwood, with a lifespan of up to two hundred years. The tree generally begins flowering and seeding at the age of twelve, and will usually cease around the age of a hundred.

The leaves of the Sweet Linden are simple and alternately arranged, and can reach sizes as large as thirty-six centimeters in length and twenty-eight in breadth, however sizes in the range of twelve to eighteen centimeters long are far more common. In autumn, the leaves turn a yellowish-orange and drop away. The leaves, alongside the twigs of the tree, contain a thicker, mucilaginous sap than the trunk, however the sweetness of the sap is said to be equivalent.

The fragrant flowers of the Sweet Linden grow in cymose clusters which droop, with six to twenty flowers comprising each cluster. The flowers themselves are a yellow-white and around twelve millimeters in diameter. As the flowers require at most nine and a half hours of night to form, they will begin growth several months after the leaves, which start in early spring. The flowers will form in the northernmost part of their range on 12th May, and at earliest will form on 19th April. The flowers are insect-pollinated.

The fruits are small, globose, downy, hard, and dry cream-colored nutlets with a diameter of eight to ten millimeters.

Range

Cultivation and uses