Our famous naturalist Carolus Linnaeus got his name from Linden tree (his earler name Linne)
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Na Bha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Linde (Tilia) Tilioideae within the family Malvaceae. > Fotos taken on 15.6.2011 in Knoops Park in Bremen. The tree is 10 meter (or > higher?) > > The flowers have a very pleasent fragrance and attracts not only human > beings but many insects. > Wood is soft and is used in carving, used in churches especially for > Altars, for making furniture or veneers. > > Flowers attract honeybees and the goldcolor honey has typical flavour of > Linde. Dried flowers are used to prepare tea which is good against cold. > > Linden-tea with a little bit of lindenhoney, a good book to read, in a > rocking chair near the fireplace, listening to the crackling of the fire. > Winter can come. > > In former days there used to be at least one Linde in every village. The > village court was held under the lindentree, so the tree was called > court-tree. After an epidemy or a war a peace-linde was planted. In one of > the tree-walks I learnt that many existing lindentrees in our area were > planted to commemorate the german-french war in 1870/71. > In Schluttenbach in Southgermany there is one linde supposed to be more > than 1000 years old. > > Linde is a very popular avenue tree. and the road is typically called > "unter den Linden" (under the lindentrees) More or less in every city or > village there is one "unter den Linden". Lindenallee, atleast a drugstore > "linden apotheke". > One of the very famous "unter den Linden" is in Berlin. Festivals, > Demonstrations, Talks by politicians, public viewing Football, everything > takes place "unter den Linden" > Berlin-portal says: > "Unter den Linden is the oldest shopping street of the city and stretches > from the Brandenburg Gate to the castle bridge. The first trees were planted > in 1647 on order of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm." > > One finds many stories and poems dedicated to Linde. One very famous > volksong is "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum" and more or > less everyone can sing it. > > Regards > Nalini > >
