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This plant is part of the Deciduous trees and shrubs (Arboretum 1) collection. Ez a növény az Lombos fák, cserjék (Arborétum 1.) gyűjtemény része.

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Ulmus laevis Pall., variously known as the European white elm, fluttering elm, spreading elm, stately elm and, in the United States, the Russian elm, is a large deciduous tree native to Europe, from France northeast to southern Finland, east beyond the Urals into Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and southeast to Bulgaria and the Crimea; there are also disjunct populations in the Caucasus and Spain, the latter now considered a relict population rather than an introduction by man, and possibly the origin of the European population. U. laevis is rare in the UK, although its random distribution, together with the absence of any record of its introduction, has led at least one British authority to consider it native. NB: The epithet 'white' elm commonly used by British foresters alluded to the timber of the wych elm. The species was first identified, as Ulmus laevis, by Pallas, in his Flora Rossica published in 1784. The tree is allogamous and is most closely related to the American elm U. americana. Endemic to alluvial forest, U. laevis is rarely encountered at elevations above 400 m. Most commonly found along rivers such as the Volga and Danube, it is one of very few elms tolerant of prolonged waterlogged, anoxic ground conditions. The species is threatened by habitat destruction and disturbance in some countries, notably Spain. Flood control schemes are particularly harmful, as seed dispersion is reliant on floods, while abstraction from aquifers lowering ground water levels has compromised the development of the trees. Although not possessed of an innate genetic resistance to Dutch elm disease, the species was rarely infected in western Europe. However, the much warmer and drier summers of the 21st century have generated population explosions of the Scolytus bark beetles, precipitating 'feeding pressure' which has led to widescale infection of white elms in southern England and southern Netherlands. In Zeeland province.

A vénic-szil (vénicszil, vénic szil, vénicfa Ulmus laevis) a kétszikűek (Dicotyledonopsida) osztályának a csalánvirágúak (Urticanae) alrendjébe, ezen belül a szilfafélék (Ulmaceae) családjába tartozó fafaj. Egyéb elnevezései: kocsányos, lobogós vagy nyolchímű szil, szúnyogfa. 2023-ban Magyarországon az Év fájává választották.