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Scientific name:

Ulmus laevis

Vernacular name:

White-elm, European


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European White-elm

Scientific name: Ulmus laevis Pall.

Diagnostic features
Tree to 21m.
Outline ± orbicular.
Trunk often with conspicuous burs, dividing low down into long spreading branches.
Leaves 4-12cm, obovate to broadly so, glabrous to densely softly pubescent on lowerside, variably and often strongly asymmetric at base, with 10-18 pairs of lateral veins.
Petiole c.3-9mm.

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
Rarely planted but occasional in wild in England and Wales, vigorously suckering from old trees in wood in 1 site in Cards; Central & East Europe.

This species is keyed out at Page 1729: Ulmaceae, Ulmus in the Text Key.

Note
The long pedicels and yellowish-green rather than reddish flowers are diagnostic; winter buds are also more acute than in the native species

Ulmus laevis (White-elm, European)
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