Ulmus alata
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Ulmus alata, Michx. Wahoo or Winged Elm. Fig. 3877. Tree, attaining 50 ft., with spreading branches forming an oblong, round-topped or rather open head: branches usually with 2 opposite very broad wings; branchlets almost glabrous: buds acute, glabrous: lvs. ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, often falcate, acute or acuminate, doubly serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 1 1/2 – 2 1/2 in. long: fls. in short, few-fld. racemes; stamens usually 5: fr. elliptic-ovate, with narrow wing and with 2 incurved horns at the apex, villous, 1/3 in. across. Va. to Fla., west to Ill. and Texas. S.S. 7:313.—Handsome round-headed tree, sometimes used as an avenue tree in the southern states; not hardy N. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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