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Elm wood is also resistant to decay when permanently wet, and hollowed trunks were widely used as water pipes during the medieval period in Europe. Elm was also used as piers in the construction of the original London Bridge, but this resistance to decay in water does not extend to ground contact. [56]
Ulmus thomasii, the rock elm [3] or cork elm (or orme liège in Québec), is a deciduous tree native primarily to the Midwestern United States. The tree ranges from southern Ontario and Quebec , south to Tennessee , west to northeastern Kansas , and north to Minnesota .
The field elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Plotii', commonly known as Lock elm [1] [2] or Lock's elm [3] [4] (its vernacular names), Plot's elm [5] or Plot elm, [6] and first classified as Ulmus sativa Mill. var. Lockii and later as Ulmus plotii by Druce in 1907-11 (see 'Etymology'), is endemic mainly to the East Midlands of England, notably around the River Witham in Lincolnshire, in the Trent ...
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Sarniensis', known variously as Guernsey elm, Jersey elm, [1] Wheatley elm, [2] [3] or Southampton elm, [4] was first described by MacCulloch in 1815 from trees on Guernsey, [5] and was planted in the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens in the 1820s. [3]
Ulmus glabra, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reaches its southern limit in Europe; [2] it is also found in Iran.
Ulmus rubra, the slippery elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America. Other common names include red elm , gray elm , soft elm , moose elm , and Indian elm . Description
Old Norse askr literally means "ash tree" but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed. The first meaning, "elm tree", is problematic [clarification needed], and is reached by deriving *Elm-la from *Almilōn and subsequently to almr ('elm').
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Argenteo-Variegata' or simply 'Variegata', known in Australasia and North America as Silver Elm [1] [2] or Tartan Elm, [3] is said to have been cultivated in France from 1772. Green noted that variegated forms of Field Elm "arise frequently, and several clones may have been known under this name". [4]