Ulmus canescens Melville

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Ulmus canescens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ulmus/ulmus-canescens/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

This species is closely allied to U. carpinifolia, from which it differs in the young branchlets and the leaves being densely downy. The leaves are elliptic-ovate, more bluntly toothed than in U. carpinifolia, with twelve to sixteen pairs of veins. It is a native of the eastern and central Mediterranean region as far west as Italy, first distinguished by Dr Melville in Kew Bulletin, Vol. 12 (1957), pp. 499–502.

It is possible that some trees in Italy and southeast Europe, identified as U. procera, belong to this species.