European White Elm
Ulmus laevis
Tree 8 to 35 m tall, often with "knaggy"stem. Leaf blade is distinctively asymmetric, teeth on leaf margin sickle-shaped. Secondary veins are not bifurcate. Fruit are achenes of a penny-like shape with a seed in the middle of the wing. Their size is about 10-12 mm. The edge of achenes is densely ciliate. In maturity achenes are overhanging.
Shoots: Shoots are thin, hairy in youth.
Natural range: Central and Eastern Europe, S Finland up to the western edge of Siberia; in our area domestic.
Buds
Buds are tipped. The scales have two colours and dark margin. The reproductive buds are more spherical.
Leaves
Leaves are simple. The lamina is at the basis markedly skewed and distinctively asymmetric; it is up to 15 cm long. The face can be scatteredly covered with clinging hairs, the underside is densely softly pilose. Lateral veins miss dichotomy (rarely the veins can be forked near the base). First order serration on the leaf margin is bent forward (sickle-shaped). The petiole is 2-8 mm long, pilose.
Fruits
Achenes of a penny-like shape with a seed in the middle of the wing. Their size is about 10-12 mm. The edge of achenes is densely ciliate. In maturity achenes are overhanging.