The Mount Olivet Cemetery Linden

Utah's champion small-leaved lime has a trunk 4.11 metres round, and its crown is almost as wide as the tree is tall. The state's big tree register, kept by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, measured it in 2016: 21.0 metres tall, with a spread of 20.7 metres. In the United States this species usually goes by littleleaf linden, and this is the largest one the register knows of in the state. It stands in Mount Olivet Cemetery, and the register marks it as open to the public. That is where the certainty ends. The register's own record disagrees with itself: its street address points to the west side of the city, while its coordinate sits on the east bench. Our pin follows the coordinate and is approximate, and in a cemetery this size that leaves you looking among a great many trees. The register's measurements are the best guide: a lime this broad, with a trunk over four metres round, should not be easy to confuse with its neighbours. The 2016 measurement is also the last sighting we have, so we cannot promise the tree is still standing. Nobody has dated it. If you find it, tell us where exactly it stands and how it looks, and if you know when it was planted, tell us that too. Come in July, when this species carries its small, scented flowers, later than most limes.