A Tree of Plymouth #ThursdayTreeLove

Along the waterfront of Plymouth, Massachusetts, where we visited last week, were these wonderful, heavily pruned trees with small, fragrant flowers.

In a local park, I saw a majestic specimen of the same tree.

They reminded me of the linden trees we have where I live in the Southern Tier of New York State, except that there were no bracts alongside the flowers.  On our trees, the bracts appear when the flower buds appear.

Sorry about the strip of light in the middle of this photo.

My iPhone has a built in plant identifier in the Photos app, and it identified this tree as a "lime" tree. in one photo.  In the other, it indicated Chinese linden.

Here's a closeup of the flowers.

To us in the United States, lime trees produce...well, limes, the sour but otherwise delicious green citrus fruit.  Those trees are hardy only in several states, not including Massachusetts. They would die in any winter where I live and certainly in Plymouth, too.  But then, I remembered that in Europe what we call a basswood or linden is called a lime tree.

After further research, I suspect these trees are Chinese lindens.

And oh, did they ever smell good.

Joining Parul at Happiness and Food this second Thursday of the month for her #ThursdayTreeLove.