A dense, symmetrical shade and street tree of European origin, reaching about 50-60 feet with a tidy pyramidal-to-oval crown of small, heart-shaped, finely toothed dark-green leaves. In early-to-mid summer it carries clusters of small, pale-yellow, intensely fragrant flowers — each cluster hung from a narrow leafy bract — that are a premier nectar source and have long been dried for linden-flower tea. Small nutlets follow, the foliage casts deep even shade, and the formal habit and pollution tolerance have made it one of the classic urban and avenue lindens.