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Zelkova carpinifolia (Caucasian Zelkova)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Zelkova carpinifolia, known as Caucasian elm, Caucasian zelkova or just zelkova, is a species of Zelkova, native to the Caucasus, Kaçkar, and Alborz mountains in the extreme southeast of Europe and southwest Asia. It is grown as an ornamental tree in Europe (huge exemplars of it can be found quite often in western part of Georgia called Imereti, used for decorating courtyards in villages and making a pleasant shadow) and more rarely in North America (where the related Japanese Z. serrata is more popular). Hybrid cultivars \n* Zelkova × verschaffeltii
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Zelkova carpinifolia

Predators

Tulasnella brinkmannii[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0