The specifications included wood from 200-year-old Japanese zelkova trees and the smoothest Greek sheepskin.

The satsuma-biwa is traditionally made from Japanese mulberry, although other hard woods such as Japanese zelkova are sometimes used in its construction.

This last version, built of Japanese zelkova wood was, at almost 35 meters, the tallest of its kind in the Kantō area.

Wajima-nuri, dating back to the 16th century, is characterized by use of the elm-like Japanese zelkova, (keyaki 欅), powdered earth, and delicate features formed from cloth.

Checking leaves for browning, which this drought will not make widespread until next summer, she identifies a Japanese zelkova, a new generation of tougher street trees, which she calls her babies.

Beside the blazing red trident maple and golden Japanese Zelkova passed over by the thieves stood a rich green Sequoia sempervirens, or giant redwood, which often grows 300 feet tall.

Zelkova serrata-Keyaki or Japanese Zelkova (Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands in Russia, Taiwan, China)

The park has Yoshino cherry, Japanese andromeda, Japanese zelkova, Flowering quince, Tulip, Camellia, Thunberg spirea, Pearlbrush, Rapeseed, Common snapdragon, and Swamp chrysanthemum.

Suddenly, looking once more at the Japanese elm, I saw.

"To promote a Chinese or Japanese elm just isn't the same," he said.

Japanese Elm has been widely planted in northern Japan as a street tree.

Standing behind three torii gates in a wood with many ancient Japanese elms, it claims to have a 2400-year history.

The Japanese elm species and their value for the Dutch elm breeding program.

"Initially, the press reported it as a Japanese elm or a Chinese elm.

Nearby, a booth sold lovely bonsai: miniature windblown Japanese elms and junipers.

Natural populations of Japanese Elm have a low to moderate resistance to Dutch elm disease.

Asia section - dove tree, Japanese elm, and Asian hydrangeas, maples, and walnut trees.

Unlike other Japanese Elms, the growth habit of 'Discovery' is symmetrical, upright, and vase-shaped.

Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var.

Japanese Elm was assessed in Canada as a substitute for native elms which had succumbed to Dutch elm disease.

The tree was one of a number of Japanese Elms planted in an experimental shelterbelt at Indian Head in 1953.

The park has about 5,000 trees, including Japanese red spruce, yew, gingko, Sargent's cherry, black acacia, and Japanese elm.

These shelterbelt trees were derived from seed taken from two openly-pollinated Japanese Elms obtained from Manchuria and planted at Indian Head in 1929.

Although this tree was originally identified as Ulmus crassifolia, it is now is believed to have been a hybrid of the Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var.

The natural hybrid elm Ulmus x mesocarpa is a cross of Ulmus macrocarpa with Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var.

Arising from a chance crossing in 1958 of the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila and the Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var.

Natural populations of U. laciniata have only a marginal resistance to Dutch elm disease (DED), rated 2 out of 5, below that of the Japanese Elm.

The elm hybrid cultivar 'Cathedral' is one of several clones derived from crossings of the Siberian Elm U. pumila with the Japanese Elm U. davidiana var.

In 1977, Heybroek collected the tree in Japan, with the result that there is now a small forest of Japanese Elm in southern Flevoland, the largest plantation of the species beyond its native land.

An American cultivar raised by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), 'New Horizon' was derived from a crossing of Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila with Japanese Elm Ulmus davidiana var.

The hybrid elm cultivar 'Patriot' [1] is a United States National Arboretum introduction derived in 1980 from a crossing of the American hybrid 'Urban' with the Wilson's Elm (now treated as Japanese Elm U. davidiana var.

This figure is surprising in the light of Townsend & Douglass's work, which found that the Liberty elms exhibited only an 18% survival rate four years after inoculation, compared with 96% for both 'Valley Forge' and 'Princeton', and 100% for the Japanese Elm clone 'Prospector'.

Unlike many Asiatic species, Japanese Elm is tolerant of a mild, maritime climate with heavy winter rainfall and was consequently considered of potential use in the Dutch elm breeding programme led by H. M. Heybroek at the Dorschkamp Research Institute at Wageningen.

Zelkova serrata (I)

"Zelkova Serrata."

Its official bird is the Azure-winged Magpie, its flower the Fringed Orchid, and its tree the Zelkova serrata.

Arboretum - Fine mature specimens including Acer neapolitanum, Celtis sinensis, Cinnamomum camphora, Cupressus goveniana, Cupressus macrocarpa, Cupressus sempervirens, Quercus calliprinos, Quercus coccifera, and Zelkova serrata.