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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 alata - winged elm, Wahoo; Ulmus crassifolia - cedar elm; Ulmus elongata - long raceme elm; Ulmus ismaelis; Ulmus mexicana - Mexican elm; 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 ...
The bodies of Japanese Taiko drums are often cut from the wood of old elm trees, as the wood's resistance to splitting is highly desired for nailing the skins to them, and a set of three or more is often cut from the same tree. The elm's wood bends well and distorts easily.
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.
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 ...
Wych elm wood is prized by craftsmen for its colouring, its striking grain, its 'partridge-breast' or 'catspaw' markings, and when worked, its occasional iridescent greenish sheen or 'bloom'. The bosses on old trees produce the characteristic fissures and markings of 'burr elm' wood. [38]
The field elm (Ulmus minor) cultivar 'Atinia' , [1] commonly known as the English elm, formerly common elm and horse may, [2] and more lately the Atinian elm, [3] was, before the spread of Dutch elm disease, the most common field elm in central southern England, though not native there, and one of the largest and fastest-growing deciduous trees in Europe.
Ulmus minor Mill., the field elm, is by far the most polymorphic of the European species, although its taxonomy remains a matter of contention.Its natural range is predominantly south European, extending to Asia Minor and Iran; its northern outposts are the Baltic islands of Öland and Gotland, [2] although it may have been introduced by humans.