Ulmus minor var. vulgaris.

[JDog]

I really do miss seeing the English Elm as a mature tree in our countryside. Like many others I was devastated when Dutch Elm disease came in and ravaged some very fine specimens countrywide. I am told that there are some resistant varieties and some people are even planting them again.

Just outside this village there is an almost complete hedge of it. Just as long as the farmer cuts it down biennially I believe that the plants may survive as a hedge. I hope so. The leaves are very attractive.

 

[Walker570]

Now wych elm is that?    I have a lot of wych elms growing in my roadside hedge and also one in my wood which is well away from other elms and cross fingers is surviving. The ones in the hedge every so often die off and I assume this is the elm disease.  New seedlings soon grow up and fill in.

I have wych elm listed as Ulmus glabra.  There re also the Camperdown elm, 'Pendula' elm, Exeter elm, Silver elm, Cornish elm, Wheatley elm and others,  then of course the English elm whose stature dominated so much of the English countryside. Looking at the leaf I tend to think that hedge is wych elm. 

on edit ...just been in the wood and took a photo of the wych elm growing in isolation, this grew from seed and has been there now for over 20yrs. I'm having to divert the ride because I don't want to cut it back.

 

Edited April 28, 2019 by Walker570