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Small leaved Lime, Tilia cordata

lime flowersThe young leaves can be eaten raw. They make an excellent salad or sandwich filling, they are mild tasting and somewhat mucilaginous. The leaves can be available from spring until early autumn from the young growths at the base of the tree.

A very acceptable chocolate substitute can be made from a paste of the ground-up flowers and immature fruit. Trials on marketing the product failed because the paste is very apt to decompose.

A popular herb tea is made from the flowers, it has a sweet, fragrant pleasant flavour.

 

Sap - harvested in the spring, it is sweet and can be used as a drink or concentrated into a syrup. Lime flowers are a popular domestic remedy for a number of ailments, especially in the treatment of colds and other ailments where sweating is desirable.  

A fibre from the inner bark is used to make mats, shoes, baskets, ropes etc. It is also suitable for cloth.