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Linden
Tilia cordata
Heart-shaped leaves and a honey-bract blossom — the classic European calm-and-cold tea.
Flavor
Honey, linden, a faint mucilage — the smell of June streets in Europe.
Symptoms
anxiety, insomnia, cold, sore throat, cough
In favor
Delicious
Against
Street trees may be sprayed
Grow lab
Yes
Days to harvest
First pickable blossom in 6–10 years from a whip; sooner from a large nursery tree