Elm, Princeton

Ulmus americana 'Princeton', a distinguished American Elm cultivar, emerges as a horticultural phoenix of extraordinary resilience and landscape sophistication, flourishing across its impressive Zone 3-9 hardiness range with unparalleled botanical grace. This exceptional specimen achieves a majestic mature form of 50-70 feet in height and 30-50 feet in width, presenting a broad rounded crown that resurrects the iconic silhouette of the classic American Elm while delivering unprecedented disease resistance. Its dark green foliage provides a rich, verdant backdrop throughout the growing season, dramatically transforming into a luminous display of golden yellow as autumn approaches, setting the landscape ablaze with seasonal brilliance. Demonstrating remarkable urban tolerance, the cultivar represents a pinnacle of elm breeding – offering landscape designers and gardening enthusiasts a supremely adaptable specimen that combines structural integrity, ecological functionality, and extraordinary aesthetic potential in a singularly impressive botanical form that brings the historic elegance of the American Elm back to urban and suburban landscapes with extraordinary Dutch Elm Disease resistance.