Ulmus rubra


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slippery elm

Herbal medicine
A deciduous tree that contains mucilage, starch and tannins; its inner bark is emollient and mildly astringent. Slippery elm has been used internally for coughs, diarrhoea, gastrointestinal inflammation, constipation, menstrual and renal dysfunction and sore throat; it is used topically for burns, wounds and dry skin.
 
Toxicity
Contact dermatitis caused by powdered bark.

Ulmus rubra,

n See slippery elm.
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Ilex vomitoria, Celtis laevigata, Ulmus rubra, Quercus virginiana, Q.
Vegetation and elevational gradients within a bottomland hardwood forest of southeastern Louisiana
Trees were co-dominated by Fraxinus americana, Ulmus rubra, and Acer saccharum.
Mager"--Major overstory trees were Acer saccharum, Ulmus rubra, and Quercus velutina.
The most common trees over transects were Acer saccharum, Ulmus rubra, and Prunus serotina.
Variation in communities of seed-dispersing ants in habitats with different disturbance in Knox County, Ohio (1)
8% (Quercus rubra, Ulmus rubra, Celtis occidentalis, Carya ovata, Ulmus americana, and Fraxinus americana).
Tilia americana and Ulmus rubra have size-class distributions that approximate a multimodal curve (Figure 2).
grandifolia, Populus deltoides, and Ulmus rubra all have importance values [greater than or equal to] 5.
STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF GINN WOODS, AN OLD-GROWTH FOREST IN EAST-CENTRAL INDIANA
palustris, Salix discolor, Toxsicodendron radicans, and Ulmus rubra.
The entire western edge of West Vernal Pool is bordered by County Road 300 West, and the most common woody border species are Acer negundo, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Gymnocladus dioica, Salix nigra, and Ulmus rubra.
THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF GINN WOODS, BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA

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