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Accessions: 2010 Nos. 99, 100, 102, , donated by Mr Paul King; one in the elm collection near the Celastraceae beds past Brentford Gate; another by the entrance to the Lower Nursery from Brentford Gate, behind the Quarantine House; a third by the leaning stone pine on the lawn adjacent to the
175:, the field elm. The Lynfields elm, Witham, the second of the source trees, has shallow-toothed, elliptical short-shoot leaves (without prominent drip-tip), 2 to 2.5 in long and 1.5 to 2 in wide, on quarter-inch petioles, and vertically-fissured overlapping bark unlike that of old
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Kingdom. Leicestershire County Council had planted 12 saplings by 2010, "with a view to distributing more to schools". Three specimens donated in 2010 by King and Co to Kew Gardens were thriving in 2023. Specimens were exhibited by the
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Hiemstra, Wageningen University, in the 2015 Noordplant trials in the Netherlands, died rapidly. A degree of 'field resistance' has been noted in a small number of old
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Lynfields elm remains healthy (2023).
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