Re: Did native Americans cultivate Lime tree?

From: Thomas Zahr (ThomasZahr0501_at_xemaps.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:43:20 +0100

tkavanagh posted:

>
> "I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.xjohansson@telia.xcom> wrote in
> message news:UMzKd.129015$dP1.461761@newsc.telia.net... ...

>>
>> You on the other end appears to have missed the
>> information that 'lime trees' in Great Britain is same as
>> Linden(thanks Alan for that one) in NA. Latin name: Tilia
>> cordata. And they not only can be grown in Canada......
>
> Interesting; according to Hortus Third, T. cordata Mill [T.
> parviflora J.F. Ehrh. ex Hoffm.] is the "small-leaved
> *European* [my emphasis] linden." T. americana is barely
> "the same" as T. cordata. Which did Kalm see?
>

Another question is wether the naming of tilia has changed
between Kalm and today. 

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Thomas =:-)
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