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elm (elm) any tree of the genus Ulmus ; Ulmus rubra is the slippery elm, the source of slippery elm bark.


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As English elms were wiped out in the 1970s, the elm comes from Scotland - but this is singularly appropriate as Joyce's forebears were from North of the Border and her daughter Heather lives in Edinburgh.
After systematically sampling their countryside, the pathologists realized that this aggressive strain was spreading and killing English elms, which like the American version were much beloved for a great variety of landscaping purposes.
 
 
 
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