Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/8-77
Notes:
This tree is located on 24th Ave.S. just north of its intersection with Vanderbilt Place. It is in front of the Beta Theta Pi house.
This tree is the largest American elm in the arboretum and is tied for the 5th largest tree on the Vanderbilt campus. It soars over 30 m (100 feet) in height and has a crown that also spans 30 m. (See Big trees in the Vanderbilt Arboretum to see how it ranks.)
Big elm trees like this were once a common site along streets in many cities in the United States until the Dutch elm disease wiped most of them out in the mid-1900s. Thanks to careful pruning to prevent the buildup of dead wood, many of Vanderbilt's elms have survived, including this giant.
This tree is the largest American elm in the arboretum and is tied for the 5th largest tree on the Vanderbilt campus. It soars over 30 m (100 feet) in height and has a crown that also spans 30 m. (See Big trees in the Vanderbilt Arboretum to see how it ranks.)
Big elm trees like this were once a common site along streets in many cities in the United States until the Dutch elm disease wiped most of them out in the mid-1900s. Thanks to careful pruning to prevent the buildup of dead wood, many of Vanderbilt's elms have survived, including this giant.
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This organism is a living specimen that is part of the Vanderbilt University Arboretum with the local identifier 3-589.
This particular organism is believed to have managedmeans of establishment.
This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.
Remarks:Died sometime before 2024.
Identifications:
Ulmus americana
L.
sec. fna.org 1993
common name: American elm
family: Ulmaceae
Identified 2014-08-27 by Steven J. Baskauf
Location:
24th Ave. S., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.14617°, -86.80505°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.
Location of individual determined from GIS database.
Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2014-08-27
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