title: Ulmus 'Planeroides'
text: # Ulmus 'Planeroides'
  
  The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Planeroides' [:Planera-like elm] was described by Carrière in the Revue horticole, 1875. It was considered "possibly Ulmus carpinifolia" [:U. minor ] by Green.
  
  Not to be confused with Späth's U. montana viminalis which, though "also distributed under the name Planera aquatica", has osier-like leaves, Planera being the old name for Zelkova, a close relative of elm with willow-like leaves.
  
  ## Description
  
  The tree was described as having leaves like Planera aquatica.
  
  ## Pests and diseases
  
  Most field elm clones are susceptible to Dutch elm disease.
  
  ## Cultivation
  
  No specimens are known to survive.
  
  ### Putative specimen
  
  A pruned elm with Planera-like leaves, possibly the cultivar 'Planeroides', stands in Stanford Avenue, Brighton.
  
  * Stanford Avenue tree
  * Same, April
  * Short-shoot foliage of same
  * Long-shoot foliage
  * Pressed leaves
  * Bark
  