European White Elm

Description

Tree reaching 10 to 30 m in height; branches nodding, young shoots more or less pubescent (!), winter buds slender, acute (!); leaves elliptic to obovate, widest above the middle (!), acuminate, scabrous andbiserrate, base very oblique, usually glossy green and smooth above, the underside soft-pubescent with 12 to 19 vein pairs, petiole 4 to 6 mm long; flowers with 6 to 8 stamens, stigmas white; fruits rounded to ovate, 1 to 1.2 cm long, ciliate (!), seed in the middle, the incision not touching the seed.