Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ulmus procera
Common name
English Elm
Family
Ulmaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Widespread, mainly Sydney area, tablelands, ACT, and Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced deciduous tree to 40 m tall, suckers present. Bark dark brown, rough, fissured. Young stems zig-zagging, and hairy, sometimes with irregular corky growths. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–9 cm long, margins wavy, upper surface dull, dark green, and rough; tips abruptly pointed; bases cordate on one side; margins shallowly toothed, veins 10–13. Flowers dark pink to red, with 0 petals, calyx deeply lobed with 4–8 lobes about 3 mm long. Flowers produced before the leaves, in clusters of 3–15-flowers. Seeds more or less flat, round, 10–17 mm wide, with a single broad wing all round. Flowers winter–spring.
In Victoria, seeds usually sterile, most populations being formed by suckering plants growing from nearby parent trees.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/19baa3b5-a3d4-4ebc-a1f8-bd7ec8d97b3b (accessed 3 May2021)
Trees of Santa Cruz County description: http://treesofsantacruzcounty.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/ulmus-procera-english-elm.html (accessed 3 May2021)
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