not oblique as in other limes.

The flowers are small (10-15 mm diameter) and symmetrical, with five sepals and five petals; the petals are yellow to greenish-yellow, about twice the length of the sepals when fully open; they are strongly scented, and very attractive to bees and other insects. The flowers of European and American Tilia species are similar, except the American ones bear a petal-like scale among their stamens and the European species are devoid of these appendages. The tiny, pea-sized fruit hangs attached to a ribbon-like,