I need tree id help from Brits
Marilyn Root
Can anyone from Great Britain explain to me what a lime tree is? I
picture limes as tropical fruit. In a fiction book I'm reading it
mentions lime trees many times such as a driveway going down between
chestnuts and limes.
Marilyn in Ohio
JR
Madgardenr
known in this country as a little-leaf linden. They are found on limestone in
the wild and are very widely used as street and city trees because they're
pollution tolerant.
galyles
JR wrote in message <38b72248.7692855@news>...
Thought I would emerge from a couple of months hibernation/lurkdom to talk
again to the ng from across the pond with respect to this thread. The
information in the reply above and another similar post which appeared
quoting Tilia is correct regarding the deciduous trees we sometimes call
"limes" here. The post above reminds me of an experience (bad!!) which I had
with these trees. Before moving to Scotland, my wife and I used to live
around 20 years ago in a rented house overlooking a busy driveway in the
centre of Cambridge in England, and parking on the street in front of the
house was prohibited (there was no garage or private drive), so I had to
park the car in a sidestreet about 200 yards away. Little did I realise at
the time that I was parking under the canopy of a "lime" tree. I now know
that many species of these trees are subject to aphid attack which causes a
"rain" of sticky exudate to fall from the leaves. I used to notice the
"honeydew" patchy deposit on the paintwork of the car but didn't realise the
damage that it could cause. The metallic blue paint surface on the hood of
the Renault car which I had at that time took on a distinct permanent
variegated pattern from then on and by the time I realised the cause it was
too late to reverse the damage. Maybe the paint finish on this particular
make of car was more susceptible than other cars would have suffered but
it was a hard lesson learned. Do you guys in the States have any trees that
attack (or have attacked) automobiles in this way or is this problem with
auto paint surfaces a relic of the olden days?
Geoff
(Dundee, UK).
Ann
>The metallic blue paint surface on the hood of
>the Renault car
Hi there, Geoff, long time no read....lots of returnees lately!
The key, I think, to the damage is the metallic blue paint. Any paint
would be damaged by this honeydew, but for some reason metallic blue
seems to be affected even more. Back in the 70's and 80's they seemed
to use some kind of blue paint that didn't hold up well to anything,
either weather (sun, rain, salt) or sap. You can still see some of
these old cars all mottled and blotched up. I haven't noticed it on
newer cars, so I think they may have solved the problem.
--
Ann, Gardening in Zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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Zhanataya
<ge...@galyles.u-net.com> wrote:
> Do you guys in the States have any trees that
>attack (or have attacked) automobiles in this way or is this problem with
>auto paint surfaces a relic of the olden days?
>
>Geoff
>(Dundee, UK).
Hi Geoff, Welcome back. In Florida we have love bugs. Not
a tree, but sure will do a job on the paint.
Zhan