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The cedar elm is a medium to large deciduous tree growing to 24–27 m tall with a rounded crown. The leaves are small, 2.5–5 cm long by 1.3–2 cm broad, with an oblique base, and distinguish it from Ulmus serotina with which it readily hybridizes in the wild. Leaf fall is late, often in early winter.
Rows of American elm trees line a path south of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, DC (November 11, 2006) Several rows of American elm trees that the National Park Service (NPS) first planted during the 1930s line much of the 1.9-mile-length (3.1-kilometer) of the National Mall in Washington, DC. DED first ...
Ulmus laevis Pall., variously known as the European white elm, [2] fluttering elm, spreading elm, stately elm and, in the United States, the Russian elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France [3] northeast to southern Finland, east beyond the Urals into Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and southeast to Bulgaria and the Crimea; there are also disjunct populations in the Caucasus and ...
Ulmus americana, generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, [a] is a species of elm native to eastern North America. The trees can live for several hundred years. It is a very hardy species that can withstand low winter temperatures, but it is affected by Dutch elm disease.
The Magdalen Elm, a great elm in the Grove of Magdalen College, Oxford, [73] photographed by Henry Taunt in 1900 [74] and said by Elwes to be the largest elm in Great Britain, was long believed to be wych but was found on examination by Elwes and Henry to be a Huntingdon-type hybrid that at c.300 years old pre-dated the cultivation of ...
Ulmus laciniata - Manchurian elm, cut-leaf elm Ulmus laciniata var. laciniata; ... Trees and shrubs hardy in Great Britain, 7th edition. Murray, London.
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
The leaves are generally narrow, ranging from obovate to elliptic, up to 15 cm long, and densely hirsute when young. Schneider's leaf-drawing (1907) shows a longish petiole. [ 4 ] The perfect wind-pollinated apetalous flowers are produced on second-year shoots in February; the samarae are mostly obovate < 30 × 16 mm, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with seed ...