One of the world’s most fragrant: the 500 year old tree behind the most popular relaxing herbal tea

With an unmistakable fragrance and thousands of flowers that fill the air with their scent in spring, this giant does more than beautify green spaces: it is also one of the most widely used medicinal plants. Here’s how to grow it at home and harvest its flowers.

With its dense canopy and impressive size, this long-lived species provides shade and fragrance in gardens and green spaces across major cities.

Its small flowers release such an intense fragrance that they can transform the air for several blocks around. Perhaps that is why the tree has earned a prominent place in parks, squares, and gardens around the world. And as if that were not enough, it is also the source of one of the most popular relaxing herbal teas.

We are talking about the linden tree (Tilia). Tall, elegant, and generous, every spring this tree produces thousands of small, creamy-yellow flowers. They may be discreet in appearance, but their sweet fragrance makes the linden one of the most aromatic trees for temperate climates.

Linden flowers are small and creamy yellow, growing alongside an elongated bract that helps disperse the tree’s fruit.

During flowering, bees visit the tree in large numbers. Its flowers produce abundant nectar, making them highly valuable to pollinators. This makes the linden tree an important resource for urban biodiversity.

A tree that can live for decades, even centuries

The linden tree does not grow at an exceptionally fast rate, but it is not particularly slow either. During its first few years, it grows between 30 and

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