The hard balls fall to the ground while rotating. The fruits of the summer linden are also called nose sweepers. If you look at the little nuts, you will see at first glance which property they have to thank for this nickname. A thin, parchment-like wing adorns the angular balls and, with its ability to fly, promotes the reproduction of the deciduous tree. You probably know this typical cracking sound under your feet when you walk through the fallen leaves of the linden tree and step on the hard beads. Find out here which properties characterize the fruits of the summer linden tree and how they differ from other types of linden trees.

The fruits of the summer linden contain valuable essential oils

Characteristics of the fruits of the small-leaved lime

  • The fruits of the summer lime are capsule fruits or nut fruits, which you can recognize by the following properties:
  • ripen in September of the second year
  • heavily lignified
  • spherical with three to five edges
  • about 1 cm long
  • have a parchment-like wing
  • remain on the tree until winter (October-December).
  • hairy, felty
  • Gray

The difference of the fruits to other Linden species

The fruits of a linden tree are easy to identify. But do you also know the individual differences between the different types in detail? Find out more here:
First of all, you can use the color of the fruit as a guide to distinguish the summer linden from its peers. The fruits of the summer linden are gray and felty. Meanwhile, there are also species with green fruits such as

  • the Dutch lime tree
  • and the silver lime tree

or linden trees with brown fruits like

  • the Crimean linden
  • the American lime tree
  • or the winter linden

Another difference is to the fruits of the winter linden. This species forms a larger quantity of the nuts. In contrast to the hard capsules of the summer linden, they are soft and can be crushed between the fingers.

The fruits of the summer linden have a healing effect

Like the leaves and blossoms of the summer linden, the fruits contain essential oils that have proven themselves as home remedies in natural medicine.

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