Tilia 'Westonbirt Dainty'
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Credits
Owen Johnson (2022)
Recommended citation
'Tilia 'Westonbirt Dainty'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Tilia 'Westonbirt Dainty Leaf'
- Tilia cordata 'Westonbirt Dainty'
- Tilia cordata 'Dainty Leaf'
Other taxa in genus
- Tilia americana
- Tilia amurensis
- Tilia callidonta
- Tilia chinensis
- Tilia chingiana
- Tilia concinna
- Tilia cordata
- Tilia dasystyla
- Tilia endochrysea
- Tilia × euchlora
- Tilia × europaea
- Tilia × flaccida
- Tilia × flavescens
- Tilia Hanwell Hybrids
- Tilia 'Harold Hillier'
- Tilia 'Harvest Gold'
- Tilia × haynaldiana
- Tilia henryana
- Tilia japonica
- Tilia × juranyana
- Tilia kiusiana
- Tilia mandshurica
- Tilia maximowicziana
- Tilia miqueliana
- Tilia mongolica
- Tilia nobilis
- Tilia × noziricola
- Tilia oliveri
- Tilia paucicostata
- Tilia platyphyllos
- Tilia tomentosa
- Tilia tuan
A tree of compact habit. Leaves resembling those of Tilia cordata but smaller (c. 3–5 cm wide); flowerheads abundant, not erect.
USDA Hardiness Zone 4
RHS Hardiness Rating H6
‘Westonbirt Dainty’ arose as a small-leaved seedling at the Westonbirt National Arboretum, Gloucestershire, UK; Tilia cordata is the obvious parent but hybridisation with T. japonica is suggested by the pendulous inflorescences, and the plant is a tetraploid (Wolff et al. 2019). Scions were first grafted by Geoff Locke of Mount Pleasant Trees, and one planted by Nick Macer in Stratford Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1993 has slightly larger leaves than the original seedling (N. Macer pers. comm.) but has made a graceful and delightfully floriferous tree 12 m tall by 2018 (Tree Register 2022). ‘Westonbirt Dainty’ remains commercially available from Pan Global Plants, though the suggestion (Pan-Global Plants 2022) that this is a semi-dwarf tree no more than 6 m tall is belied by the performance of the grafts so far.