#640 most planted
Ulmus wilsoniana
Japanese elm
Deciduous
809
trees mapped
0.01%
of all named trees
6
cities
2.4 in
median trunk (6 cm, 808 measured)
5.1 yr
median age (72% have a planting date)
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The Japanese elm is a graceful Asiatic elm, native to temperate regions of northeast Asia and Japan. It naturally grows in swamp forests on young alluvial soils.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 5960.18%5.1 yr2.0 in
- 1170.10%—4.0 in
- 850.03%—3.0 in
- 70.00%5.0 yr2.8 in
- 30.00%—8.0 in
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Soil
- Alluvial, Moist
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate
- Pollution tolerance
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
- Tolerates
- salt
Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.4 in, mean 3.5 in, 90th percentile 6.3 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
- Central Korean deciduous forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
Other Ulmus in the catalogue
28 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
