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Ulmus crassifolia
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Ulmus crassifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Common Names
- Cedar Elm
Other taxa in genus
- Ulmus americana
- Ulmus angustifolia
- Ulmus bergmanniana
- Ulmus campestris
- Ulmus canescens
- Ulmus carpinifolia
- Ulmus castaneifolia
- Ulmus chenmoui
- Ulmus coritana
- Ulmus davidiana
- Ulmus elliptica
- Ulmus gaussenii
- Ulmus glabra
- Ulmus glaucescens
- Ulmus × hollandica
- Ulmus japonica
- Ulmus laciniata
- Ulmus laevis
- Ulmus lamellosa
- Ulmus macrocarpa
- Ulmus parvifolia
- Ulmus plotii
- Ulmus procera
- Ulmus pumila
- Ulmus rubra
- Ulmus serotina
- Ulmus szechuanica
- Ulmus thomasii
- Ulmus villosa
- Ulmus 'Viminalis'
- Ulmus wallichiana
- Ulmus wilsoniana
A tree up to 80 ft high in nature, but in cultivation in England very slow-growing and forming a round-headed small tree; young shoots clothed with fine, soft, very short down; winter buds often in pairs. Leaves ovate to oblong, obliquely rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, bluntish or rounded at the apex, 3⁄4 to 2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, toothed (sometimes doubly), of firm rather hard texture, very harsh to the touch above, more or less downy beneath; stalk 1⁄12 to 1⁄8 in. long. Flowers produced in clusters in the leaf-axils in August and later. Samaras 1⁄3 in. long, oval, tapered at both ends, deeply notched at the top, downy all over, especially on the margin.
A native of the southern USA and northern Mexico, and said by Sargent to be the common elm tree of Texas. It was introduced to Kew through him in 1876, but grew slowly and sometimes died back in winter from the failure of the new growths to ripen. It evidently needs hotter summers than ours.