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Tilia platyphyllos Scop. - syn. Tila grandifolia Ehrh. - Malvaceae
large-leaved linden, broad-leaved lime, large-leaved lime, Sommerlinde, Grossblättrige Linde
Deciduous tree, up to 40m in height, native to Europe. Leaves with smooth hairs on both sides, lime-green.
„The small, fragrant, yellowish-white flowers are arranged in drooping, cymose clusters in groups of 3 to 4. Their whitish-green, leaf-like bracts have an oblong-obovate shape.“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia_platyphyllos
Tea from the dried flowers of Tilia cordata and Tilia platyphyllos is used traditionally as diaphoretic. http://buecher.heilpflanzen-welt.de/BGA-Kommission-E-Monographien/tiliae-flos-lindenblueten.htm
Kohl, F.G., Die officinellen Pflanzen der Pharmacopoea Germanica, t.52 (1891-1895) [F.G. Kohl]
http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=1017807