WAIFHabit: To 40 m; bark split into ridges or plates that seldom curve together.
Stem: some branches with corky warts or wings; winter buds red-brown to almost black, bluntly short-ovoid or +- spheric, pubescent.
Leaf: 5.5--11.3 cm, 3.5--8.3 cm wide, oblong or bluntly elliptical, acuminate or generally short-acuminate, margins double-serrate, abaxial surface pubescent on blade and veins, or glabrous except for tufts in vein axils.
Inflorescence: flower, fruit before leaves in spring; pedicels +- 0.
Fruit: 1.7--2 cm, 1.1--1.9 cm wide, broadly elliptical or +- round, pale green, glabrous except for pubescence on stigmatic surface in notch.
Ecology: Spreading by root suckers near old plantings;
Elevation: 10--1000 m.
Bioregional Distribution: NCoRI, SNF, ScV, CCo, SW, DSon;
Distribution Outside California: native to Europe.
Flowering Time: Feb--Mar
Synonyms: Ulmus carpinifolia Gled.; Ulmus procera Salisb.
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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