Chinese elm has the most beautiful bark - green, gray, orange and brown mottled and flaking in small thin plates. This is a handsome tree, often with a trunk that forks and produces a vase shape similar to American elm .

Chinese elm usually gets no more than (12.2-15.2 m) tall. The leaves are typical elm leaves - about  (5.1 cm) long, elliptic, toothed, conspicuously veined and with unequal bases.

Chinese elm is tardily deciduous, almost evergreen in mild climates. Most elms produce their little winged "samaras" in the spring; this one fruits in the fall. The samaras are flat and papery, about  (0.8 cm) across and rather showy hanging in dense clusters. This is a highly variable species and there are many cultivars in the trade, selected for form, size, bark color, cold hardiness and foliage characteristics. 

These can all be grown as Bonsai or Ornamental Trees.

Hardiness Zone  US 5-9    Aus  1-4 

Care and propagation notes included.

This packet contains  approx. 50 seeds.