This particular species is resistant to Dutch Elm’s Disease and thus has grown in popularity in North America. Dutch Elm’s Disease is a fungus that arrives to the trees via the backs of two species of ...

Leaves – simple, deciduous, alternate, about 5″, coarsely doubly serrate, usually scabrous above, and often pubescent below with an inequilateral base. Twigs – slender and zigzag. Buds – 1/4″, acute, ...

He said the return of the elm is even more important given that ash trees face ash dieback and many will be lost, which is bad news for the lichens which grow on the bark of both the ash and the elm.

The fungal disease carried by the elm bark beetle arrived on UK shores early ... Ph.D. researching how society responds to the loss of a tree species I started thinking about elms more.

Dutch elm disease is a fungal infection spread by tiny bark beetles that ... elm growing in Kent with a tree that contained disease-resistant genes from an Asian species. Professor Richard Buggs ...