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What do elm trees look like?

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Tall and graceful, with fan-shaped crowns of finely subdividing branches and twigs, elms are widely planted as ornamental and shade trees, chiefly the American, or white, elm ( U. americana ) and the English, or Wych, elm ( U. campestris ) of N and central Europe and W Asia.

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