Julianalinde | Tilia x europaea
Along Emmakade, there is quite a row of these limes. The lime tree on the corner of the Juliana Square has a significance. It is a Juliana lime tree.
Planting a tree is an old custom at the birth or coronation of a crown prince(s) from the royal house. This Dutch lime tree is...
Planting a tree is an old custom at the birth or coronation of a crown prince(s) of the royal house. This Dutch lime tree was planted for Juliana, but whether it was planted at her birth in 1909 or at her coronation in 1948 is not known to anyone. It may well be that the tree was planted at birth, uprooted in World War II and then replanted. But believe it or not, that is nowhere to be found! The Dutch lime is a cross between a small-leaved lime and a summer lime. Since both of these occur in the wild in the Netherlands, a Dutch lime can emerge spontaneously in the forest. This cross, 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, which will actually grow anywhere. The trunk gets decent grooves and thicker lumps in older age, on which young twigs often grow.
