Linden

It is grown for its fragrant flowers and as a shade tree. Its flowers are dried in June and July and consumed as tea. When it blooms, picking its flowers in a sunny time increases its flowering. It gives a white and light wood that is valuable in joinery. Its air-dry weight is 0.40 gr/cm³. The fibers in the linden bark are used in rope and coarse weaving. It is also an important source of nectar in beekeeping. Its flowers are drunk as tea. Its inflorescences are used medicinally. Linden flower is used as a tea as a sedative, diuretic and expectorant. Linden flower baths also have a soothing feature. They are used in carving and furniture, in the toy industry, in the manufacture of musical instruments, and in the production of paper and matches.