title: Ulmus pumila 'Dwarf Weeper'
text: # Ulmus pumila 'Dwarf Weeper'
  
  The Siberian elm cultivar Ulmus pumila 'Dwarf Weeper' was discovered in a western Illinois garden and sold by the Arborvillage Nursery (ceased trading in 2006) Holt, Missouri.
  
  ## Description
  
  The tree was described as "a strongly weeping little plant growing 7 ft (2.1 m) perhaps after many years". A specimen at the Arborvillage Nursery was less than 3 ft (0.91 m) after 3 years.
  
  * 'Dwarf Weeper' at Grange Farm Arboretum
  
  ## Pests and diseases
  
  The species and its cultivars are highly resistant, but not immune, to Dutch elm disease, and unaffected by the Elm Leaf Beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola.
  
  ## Cultivation
  
  Restricted to North America; the only known introduction to Europe, is at the Grange Farm Arboretum, England.
  
  ### Putative specimen
  
  A notably pendulous small-leaved elm in the JC Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, North Carolina (2019), labelled Ulmus minor subsp. minor 'Pendula', 'Weeping small-leaved elm', has U. pumila-type fruit and is indistinguishable in leaf and form from U. pumila 'Dwarf Weeper'. The arboretum acquired other specimen trees from Arborvillage Nursery, Holt, Missouri.
  
  ## Accessions
  
  ### Europe
  
  * Grange Farm Arboretum, Sutton St James, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK. Acc. No. 521
  