Family: Ulmaceae Genus: Ulmus Common name: Elm. Flowering time: February to April Life forms: Macrophanerophyte (Macrofaneròfit). Habitats: Garden plants. Non-saline damp places (watercourses, ponds, streams, canals, fountains and irrigation channels). Considered a naturalised riverbank vegetation and is often grown as an ornamental. Features: The elm has a straight, robust, corpulent and rough trunk with all the refillols at the feet and a crown that sometimes rises up to 30 metres, more or less oval, leafy, with simple, alternate leaves, dark green back, rough and more or less shiny, and lighter and slightly hairy front, oval in outline, with a short, sharp tip and very serrated edges, asymmetrical at the base, with a short, hairy stem, typical of the Iberian vulgaris variety according to some authors, and not long and glabrous like the type variety, and precociously deciduous stipules.
Information taken from the website http://herbarivirtual.uib.es/ i de Pellicer, Joan (2000). Costumari Botànic. Edicions del Bullen. |