Common Lime | Tilia europaea
The Dutch lime is a very old cross between the small-leaved lime and the summer lime. Here in front of you is quite a row.
Because the small-leaved lime and the summer lime both occur in the wild in the Netherlands, the Dutch lime can arise spontaneously in the forest. The cross you see here lined up beautifully, however, originated in a nursery. You see the tree a lot near farms, as it provides a lot of shade. Do you also know the linden tree? So that's a Dutch lime tree that is pruned into a plane every year. It is also an easy tree: it grows everywhere. The trunk gets considerable grooves and thicker lumps at an older age, on which young twigs often grow.