- Hardiness Zones: 5-8
- Mature Size: 40' tall x 30' wide
- Habit: Oval
- Growth Rate: Medium-fast
- Bark: Smooth gray-green with orange lenticels
- Leaf Color: Dark glossy and lustrous
- Fall Color: Red-purple-burgundy
- Flowers: Rarely
- Fruit: None
- Disease & Insect Problems: Hybrid elm exhibits both a high level of disease tolerance to Dutch elm disease, phloem necrosis, and moderate resistance to the elm leaf beetle
- Culture: Prefers moist, rich soils but adaptable to poor soils; full sun; very tolerant of urban conditions and drought tolerant
- Recommended Cultivars (if any):
Author Notes: A promising elm now available. A cross between U. carpinifolia (smooth) and U. parviflora (lacebark) elms, this exciting medium tree may be blazing a trail for elms in the urban landscape. It has good vigor, tolerates poor soils, grows fast, but does not get big, has small leaves and no seeds, resistant of insect and disease problems, with outstanding long fall color. The Frontier Elm tree could be on everyone’s street tree list.