Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’
Owner: Anglican Church c/o Ron Judd
Nominator: Ron Judd
Height: 7.2 m (23.6 ft)
Diameter: 95.5 cm (37.6 in)
Circumference: 297.2 cm (117 in)
Description
The Camperdown Elm is a cultivar of the Wych Elm and was created around 1840 when the Earl of Camperdown’s head forester, David Taylor, discovered a mutant contorted branch growing along the ground in the forest at Camperdown House in Dundee, Scotland. The earl’s gardener produced the first Camperdown Elm by grafting it to the trunk of a Wych Elm. Every Camperdown Elm in the world is from a cutting taken from that original mutant cutting and is usually grafted on a Wych elm trunk. This tree is cold hardy ad slowly develops a broad, flat head and a wide crown with a contorted, weeping habit. Camperdown Elms satisfied a mid-Victorian passion for curiosities and many examples were planted in Britain and America in elite gardens or planted as memorials in parks or university campuses. (Source: Wikipedia)
Camperdown Elm leaves and twigs
(Source: Washington State Univeristy)