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Ulmus rubra, the slippery elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America. ... The mucilaginous inner bark of the tree is edible raw or boiled, [25] ...
Ulmus serotina - September elm; Ulmus thomasii - rock elm, cork elm; Subgenus Ulmus. U. section Foliaceae. Ulmus castaneifolia - chestnut-leafed elm, multi-nerved elm; Ulmus changii - Hangzhou elm Ulmus changii var. changii; Ulmus changii var. kunmingensis; Ulmus chenmoui - Chenmou elm, Langya Mountain elm; Ulmus chumlia; Ulmus davidiana ...
The tree has upright, spreading branches bearing dark-green leaves. [1] ' Drake' is also distinguished by having a bark that begins exfoliating at a relatively young age [1] . Pests and diseases
The inner bark of the slippery elm (Ulmus rubra), a North American tree species, has long been used as a demulcent and cough medicine, and is still produced commercially for that purpose. [6] Mucilage mixed with water has been used as a glue, especially for bonding paper items such as labels, postage stamps, and envelope flaps. [7]
In high school, he used the chewed bark of the slippery elm trees to give baseballs a more curved trajectory, a practice professional players would later pick up.
The American elm cultivar Ulmus americana 'Beebe's Weeping' was propagated from a tree growing in the wild at Galena, Illinois, by Mr. E. Beebe in the mid-19th century. [1] [2] Thomas Meehan, who had received cuttings and called it 'Weeping Slippery Elm' before the flowers revealed that it was not Ulmus fulva, suggested the name 'Beebe's Weeping Elm', as there were already U. americana clones ...
Ulmus serotina, the September elm, is an autumn-flowering North American species of tree. It is uncommon beyond Tennessee ; it is only very locally distributed through Illinois , Kentucky , Arkansas , Mississippi , Oklahoma , Alabama , and Georgia , and disjunct populations into Nuevo León , Mexico. [ 2 ]
By 8 to 10 years old, the bark breaks into thick, rough, irregular dark grey scales with deep fissures, the scales being present also on branches. Leaves are around 4 cm long, light green in spring, middle green in summer, turning bright yellow in fall. Tree grows some 20 ft tall and correspondingly wide.