Level of Significance
- File
- Local
- Regional
- State
- National
Age (approx)
?yrsTrees
1Diameter
0.8mHeight - 14m
Details
Common name
Weeping Elm
Botanical name
Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'
Type
Specimen
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Ballarat (VIC)
Location
108 Clarendon Street Ballarat Central VIC 3350
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
- Horicultural/Genetic (Scientific)
- Landscape (Social)
Date of measurement
17 Aug 2011
Date of classification
18 Jul 1991
Statement of Significance
This Weeping Elm is an outstanding example of this cultivar and an important feature in the landscape of the garden which is well known for its botanic qualities.<BR><EM>Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii' </EM>cannot reproduce from seed. About 1835 - 1840, the Earl of Camperdown's head forester, David Taylor, discovered a mutant contorted branch growing along the ground in the forest at Camperdown House in Dundee, Scotland. The earl's gardener produced the first Camperdown Elm by grafting it to the trunk of a <I>Ulmus glabra</I>. Every Camperdown Elm in the world is from a cutting taken from that original mutant cutting and is usually grafted on a Wych elm trunk<BR>Situated in front garden cnr. Clarendon & Neil Street,Ballarat.