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Tilia chinensis Maxim.

Chinese Linden

Malvaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +2

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Summary

Tilia chinensis (Chinese linden, Chinese: 椴树) is a species of lime or linden tree that is endemic to China. It flowers in July or August when honey bees collect honey from its flowers. Especially famous is honey taken from the Chinese linden flowers in Changbai Mountain.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tilia chinensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The species are known as linden or lime for the European and Asian species, and linden or basswood for North American species and more generally in American literature. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, but the genus also occurs widely in Europe and eastern North America. More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 177 of the 178 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.36, 102.81 · in the densest population, 143 records (80% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 178 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 89 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 123 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 177 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 178 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: APictche, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Organisme public, publication avec licence Creative Commons, sens large., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Tilia 20 in the reference

Tilia americana Tilia americana American basswood Photo: CC BY, Steven LavoieTilia amurensis Tilia amurensis Amur linden Photo: CC BY, Поляков АлександрTilia chingiana Tilia chingiana Ching's Lime Photo: Public domain, Ptelea at en.wikipediaTilia cordata Tilia cordata Small-leaved lime Photo: CC BY, Oleksandr ShynderTilia dasystyla Tilia dasystyla Crimean Lime Photo: CC BY, Наталья Пикалова Tilia endochrysea Malvaceae Tilia × euchlora Tilia × euchlora Caucasian lime Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael PavlíčekTilia × europaea Tilia × europaea European linden Photo: CC BY, jamie-aa Tilia henryana Henry's Lime Tilia japonica Tilia japonica Japanese linden Photo: CC BY-SA, harum.kohTilia kiusiana Tilia kiusiana Kyushu lime Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizTilia mandshurica Tilia mandshurica Manchurian lime Photo: CC BY, Tatyana Petrenko all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tilia baroniana; Tilia laetevirens; Tilia yunnanensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
Maxim.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
178 in range · 89 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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