Zelkova carpinifolia

Zelkova carpinifolia, known as Caucasian zelkova, Caucasian elm or just zelkova, is a species of Zelkova, native to the Caucasus, Kaçkar, and Alborz mountains of eastern Europe and southwest Asia.
It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree growing to tall, with a trunk of up to in diameter. The crown is a highly distinctive vase-shape, with a short broad trunk dividing low down into numerous nearly erect branches. The leaves are alternate, long and broad, the margin bluntly serrated with 7–12 teeth on each side. The flowers are inconspicuous and greenish, with no petals, and are wind-pollinated. The fruit is a small nutlet in diameter.
It is grown as an ornamental tree in Europe and more rarely in North America.
;Hybrid cultivars

Zelkova × verschaffeltii

Distribution

The two main population centres of Z. carpinifolia are in the Hyrcanian forest of southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, and the Colchic forest of western Georgia. Other isolated stands can be found in the Karabakh mountains, Anatolia, northwestern and eastern Georgia, and Iranian Kurdistan.