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Strange trees

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We recently visited lake como area.. A truly wonderful treat. bellagio, varrena and menaggio all have their individual charm.. Way different from each other but none is less than the other.

I could not help admiring the rows of trees making an arbor over the promanades in these places. These trees had broad leaves, sort of looking like poplar bot rounded and not lobed- they looked like emerging directly from the main branch in a funny sort . It looked like someone has stuck bunch of leaves on a bare tree trunk. I asked several people but no one could give the name of those trees, please help if you know.. I am curious. Thanks

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Perhaps you may want to post in the Italy forum and not the TA support forum which is more of a helpdesk for TA website and features

Here is the link http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187768-i20-k6294662-Lake_como_area-Italy.html

buona fortuna

Welcome to Ta. I think before you post in any forum, please check the top post and the top questions -- they will help you navigate through the forum. When it says PEASE READ: How to use the Support forum

I think that means that one should read that post before you post.

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Hi subuhi324,

I noticed that you inadvertently posted your question on the TripAdvisor Support forum, so I have moved the topic on your behalf to the Lake Como, Italy forum. I hope you find the information you need.

Kind regards,

TA_Jane

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It could be helpful if you could post a link to a photo.

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I don' t know what kind of trees they are but it sounds like something I've seen. The trees are pruned and trained to grow into the arobor and provide shade. The method of training the trees is called "pleaching".

In England, hornbeam and lime trees are used.

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I believe they are linden trees though they always look like mulberry trees to me. I asked and was told "tilleul" which is French I think. Also called lime trees or bass wood. They are often cut back hard (pollarded) and grow again in spring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia

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Linden is 'tiglio' in Italian. But only an image of the tree seen by the OP would confirm this interpretation.

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Ah, very close in pronunciation. I had only heard the French name so presumed she was saying that. Nevertheless, I asked the proprietor at Tre Rose at Nesso on Lake Como and that is what she told me.

Here are some pictures of the area in question (I think)

http://tinyurl.com/njnz4qv

http://tinyurl.com/pl6ccbp

And this is a googlemap image of ones in Bellagio which may help with identification

http://goo.gl/maps/VQxk7

Usually these trees are pollarded (cut right back in winter) so the new growth sticks out the top in a quite strange fashion

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Thanks, Lynn. Can't open the tinyurl links, but the trees in the googlemaps picture look like planetrees to me (platani). Definitely not linden trees, leaves are totally different.

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The tinyurl pics won't open for me either. They were from the Metropole website

http://www.albergometropole.it/

You can see the trees along the foreshore and around the bars in one of the banner pics. I agree those others were plane trees, I just took a shot at the googlemap tree avenue and didn't look too closely.

This is the googlemap of where I mean, shot in winter so you can see the pollarding

http://goo.gl/maps/LTyQW

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However, Subuhi said the leaves were rounded, which makes them sound more like tigli. Also, the leaves of a tiglio do often grow straight out of the trunk and branches. In the wikipedia article on "Tilia" (the botanic name), next to the section on German mythology, you can see a photo of an avenue of pollarded linden trees (also called lime tree in English), with leaves growing from the branch ends.

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