The Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) is a species of elm native to China. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous (rarely semi-evergreen) tree growing to 10-18 m tall with a slender trunk and crown. The leaves are small, 2-5 cm long and 1-3 cm broad. The flowers are produced in early autumn, small and inconspicuous, with the seed maturing rapidly and dispersing by late autumn. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Barbeyaceae Cannabaceae (hemp family) Dirachmaceae Elaeagnaceae Moraceae (mulberry family) Rosaceae (rose family) Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) Ulmaceae (elm family) Urticaceae (nettle family) For the Philippine municipality, see Rosales, Pangasinan. ... Genera Celtis - Hackberries Planera - Water-elm Ulmus - Elms Zelkova - Zelkovas Ulmaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes elms, hackberries and zelkovas. ... Species See text Elms are deciduous trees of the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature refers to the formal method of naming species. ... In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Species See text Elms are deciduous trees of the genus Ulmus, family Ulmaceae. ... Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... A Silver Fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant which retains its leaves year-round, with each leaf persisting for more than 12 months. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Wildflowers Flower (Latin flos, floris; French fleur), a term popularly used for the bloom or blossom of a plant, is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. ...

Cultivation and uses

In the United States, it has often been used as a replacement tree for American Elms killed by Dutch elm disease. Additionally, hybridization between the Chinese and American Elms has led to cultivars that are resistant to the disease, but they do not have the characteristic shape of the American Elms. The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... Binomial name Ulmus americana L. The American Elm Ulmus americana is a species of elm native to eastern North America, occurring from Nova Scotia west to southeast Saskatchewan, and south to Florida and central Texas. ... Dutch elm disease is a fungal disease of elm trees, originally native to Asia. ... In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ... This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...

The Chinese Elm is a popular landscape tree, and is hardy enough to use in harsh planting situations such like parking lots, and in small planters along streets and in plazas or patios. Scaring from major branch loss can lead to large canker-like wounds, but otherwise the trunk is a handsome mottled grey with tans and reds.

References

• U. parvifolia fact sheet at Virginia Polytechnic Institute