About this Field Elm
This elegant weeping elm is a named form of the field elm. Field elm occurs widely in Europe, north Africa and Central Asia, but this particular selection is thought to have originated in Central Asia as a sport or mutation of a similar elm called ‘Umbraculifera’ popular as an ornamental tree in Iran. In the UK only three examples of this elm are known and two of them grow here at the Royal Botanic Garden.
Field elms, although not native to the UK, were once a familiar part of the English landscape. From the 1970s a virulent strain of a fungal disease known as Dutch elm disease killed nearly all mature elms throughout Britain and Europe. Historically elm timber was valued for its strength and rot resistance.
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