Camperdown Scotch Elm         UL-mus GLA-bra

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, 6-15 ft (1.8-4,5 m), round headed, pendulous branches, often grafted to U. americana.  Leaves alternate, simple, oblong-ovate to elliptic, 7.5-18 cm long (larger than U. americana), very unequal at base, dark green above with a fine sandpaper surface.  Flowers small, small reddish-green, appear in spring before the foliage emerges.  Fruit a single-seeded wafer-like samara, to 2.5 cm, obovate to broadly elliptic, downy toward the notched apex.
• Sun or light shade.
• Native to USDA Zone 4.      Originated from a seedling in about 1850 at Camperdown House, near Dundee, Scotland.
• Corvallis: In front yard of house at northeast corner of 8th St. and Jefferson Ave; also northeast coner of 5th St. and Western Ave.