the Sort listopadnyh trees of family of the lime. A tree in height to 30 m, with furrowed darkly - grey bark and a branchy dense crone, diameter 2 (to 5) m. Sometimes a linden (especially a linden European) live till 500-1000 years. About 50 kinds in Northern hemisphere the Linden grows in all Europe and in the CIS countries, the truth they are planted not systematically. In the Western Europe, mainly the linden is planted in parks and is a traditional tree for an ornament of the rural areas.
