Ulmus chenmoui

Description

Ulmus chenmoui W. C. Cheng, commonly known as the Chenmou, or Langya Mountain, elm, is a small deciduous tree from the more temperate provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu in eastern China, where it is found at elevations below 200 m on the Langya Shan and Baohua Shan mountains. The tree was unknown in the West until 1979, when seeds were sent from Beijing to the De Dorschkamp research institute at Wageningen in the Netherlands.