Qayragoch
Smooth elm grows almost throughout Europe in the Caucasus, Asia Minor and the Urals, as well as in Kazakhstan. It often grows in mixed forests. Most often, smooth elm can be seen in oak forests, where it forms a second tier of vegetation with some other trees. A tree up to 40 meters high with a wide-cylindrical, slightly rounded crown, living up to 200-250 years. At a young age it grows very fast, after 40-50 years its growth slows down. The trunk of an old elm tree can reach a meter in diameter. The branches are thick, pointing upwards. The bark is brownish-brown, cracking, exfoliates in thin plates. At the base of the trunk of large trees, flat plank-shaped roots sometimes form, acting as an additional support. The shoots are light brown, shiny, sometimes with a gray coating and lentils. The leaves are simple, ovate or oval, with a pointed tip, strongly uneven at the base, dark green in color (lighter from below), on short petioles. Leaf length up to 12 cm, width up to 8 cm. The edge of the leaf blade is bicuspid, the upper side of the leaf is shiny, the lower side is bare or softly pubescent. The flowers are small, bisexual, gathered in bunches on long pedicels. The perianth is five— or eight-lobed, unequal. The smooth elm blooms in April — May, before the leaves bloom, pollinated by the wind.
To the Tashkent Botanical Garden Ulmus laevis Pall. the seeds of the species are from the Frunze state F.N. Rusanov tobacco was brought in 1950 for the purpose of introduction and planted in nurseries. The sprouts planted from the seeds turned out to be unub in March 1950, and the young sprouts were transplanted to the European-Crimean-Caucasian exposition in 1954. Currently, the exposition is growing 2 adult trees of this species.
