Service life is 30-plus years. This is one of the best of the lindens and can have attractive yellow fall color in good years. The plant is upright oval in habit and has extremely dark green foliage with light undersides. As with the littleleaf linden, the ivory-colored flowers are extremely fragrant, borne in June and attractive to bees. This plant should be avoided by people with sensitivity to honey bee stings.
Lindens are intolerant of mechanical injury and restricted soil spaces.
Service life is 25 years. Hybrid Elms Ulmus sp. A number of elms have been introduced in recent years. Prospector' and 'Frontier' were introduced in 1992 and are resistant to disease and the elm leaf beetle. The number of available cultivars here is increasing rapidly.