Elm, Accolade

Ulmus x 'Morton', a distinguished elm hybrid, emerges as a horticultural triumph of extraordinary resilience and landscape sophistication, flourishing across its impressive Zone 4-9 hardiness range with unparalleled botanical grace. This exceptional cultivar achieves a majestic mature form of 50-60 feet in height and 25-40 feet in width, presenting a classic vase-shaped silhouette that brings architectural elegance to landscape designs while demonstrating remarkable resistance to Dutch Elm Disease. Its vigorous growth and dark green foliage create a lush, verdant backdrop throughout the growing season, dramatically transforming into a breathtaking display of golden yellow as autumn approaches, setting the landscape ablaze with seasonal brilliance. Punctuated by distinctive winged seeds that add textural complexity to its seasonal performance, the cultivar represents a pinnacle of elm breeding – offering landscape designers and gardening enthusiasts a supremely resilient specimen that combines structural integrity, ecological functionality, and extraordinary aesthetic potential in a singularly impressive botanical form that resurrects the magnificent elm's landscape presence with unprecedented disease resistance.