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Wych elm

Ulmus glabra

Synonyms: Ильм горный

Genus Ulmus. Family Ulmaceae.

Wych elm — Photographs 1
Wych elm.
Photo: Christian Pirkl / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Description

Ulmus glabra, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reaches its southern limit in Europe; it is also native to the Caucasus region and parts of Western Asia (Turkey, Syria and Iran).

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Photographs

Wych elm — Photographs 2
Wych elm. Botanical illustration.
Mentz, August; Ostenfeld, C. H. / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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