Level of Significance
- File
- Local
- Regional
- State
- National
Age
?yrsTrees
2Diameter
0.6mHeight - 9m
Details
Common name
Weeping Elm
Botanical name
Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'
Type
Stand
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Mount Alexander (VIC)
Location
Castlemaine Botanic Gardens, Walker Street, Castlemaine VIC 3450
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
- Landscape (Social)
- Attractive (Aesthetic)
Date of measurement
27 Oct 2003
Date of classification
10 Nov 1984
Statement of Significance
These are two Impressive plantings, particularly those near the main entrance.The Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii' is a cultivar which cannot reproduce from seed. Circa 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, Dundee in Scotland and grafted it to become a new cultivar and a popular landscape tree