Scots elm – Ulmus glabra
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Growing form
Deciduous tree.
Size
15–25 m high.
Stem
The branches are erectopatent. The crown is broadly funnel-shaped. The tree does not produce root sprouts.
Leaf
The buds are nearly globose, obtuse and dark. The leaf-arrangement is spiral. The leaves are 10–18 cm long. The lamina is simple, doubly serrate, obovate, asymmetric (the longer side of the lamina is often rolled on top of the petiole), abruptly acuminate, scabrous above, and glabrous or glabrate beneath. The vein nodes are comose on the abaxial side. Most lateral veins are forked at the apical end. The petiole is 3–5 mm long.
Flower
The tree flowers before budding of leaves. The inflorescence is a dense umbel. The flowers are bisexual, small and short-pedicelled. The perianth is connate and four- or five-lobed. The anthers are purple.
Fruit and seed
The fruit is a samara, 16–30 mm x 14–20 mm. The wing is glabrous.

The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
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- vuorijalava (Finnish)
- skogsalm (Swedish)
- Scots elm (English)
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