WYCH OR ENGLISH

Up at the viewpoint we have two species of elm growing.  The Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) has large leaves with double toothing towards the tip.  Often there are two particularly long teeth either side of the point of the leaf.

And the bark is smooth - glabra means smooth.

  

The Common or English Elm (Ulmus minor var. vulgaris) is the one worst affected by Dutch elm disease.  You see the dead ones lining the hedgerows.  It has much smaller leaves, which are rough to the touch and have one side of the leaf further down the stalk than the other.

  

The bark on this species is corky on the stem and along many of the twigs.

  

That's yer elms then.