Large-leaved Lime can grow up to 35 metres tall. Leaves are 6-11 cm, hairy on the underside, especially on the veins, with many off-white hairs (not just in the leaf axils) and have a sharply toothed margin and heart-shaped base. The young twigs are hairy.  Flower cymes pendent.

Other limes

ID from mature crown leaves - young leaves are often atypical. 

Photos of mature leaf undersides 

Large-leaved Lime is cultivated as an ornamental in parks and gardens, although not as commonly as Tilia × europaea (Common Lime) and only occurs occasionally as a naturalised plant.

In flower during June.

Deciduous.

It has a fairly widespread distribution in Britain.

Occasional as a planted tree in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 13 of the 617 tetrads.