Monday Plant Feature

Featured Plant: Name: Ulmas glabra 'Camperdownii' (Camperdown elm)

1. Family: Ulmaceae
2. Plant type: deciduous tree
3. Exposure: full sun or filtered shade
4. Branching pattern: alternate
5. Habit: weeping, grafted on a tree standard. It typically grows to 15-25 ft, but can grow taller and usually much wider.
6. Foliage: coarse texture, prominent veins, pubescent (fine hairs) beneath, double serrated, dark green in summer, yellow fall color, asymmetrical leaf base at point of attachment to petiole
7. Flowers: somewhat insignificant on this plant
8. Fruit: single seed semaras, flat and green, typically there is little or no fruit set
9. Similar species: Ulmus glabra 'Pendula'
10. Other: Discovered in Dundee, Scotland in the 1800s and named for the Camperdown House at which it was found. It was originally a rambling shrub with no main stem.