The shoots are slender compared with those of wych elm. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? Green listed it as a wych elm cultivar. The surrounding woodland consists mainly of oak and wych elm. He died in the hospital before the body in the wych elm was found. The caterpillars feed on wych elm and common elm. "The woodland is primarily oak and wych elm," he writes. Both Wych Elm and English Elm were planted. In England they were built from wych elm or sand elm. Above this is a canopy of sycamore, wych elm and ash. These dales contain ancient ash and wych elm woodland. Natural forests in Ireland are mainly oak, ash, wych elm, birch and pine. A cultivar of the Wych Elm, 'Cornuta' is susceptible to Dutch Elm disease. The species is closely related to the wych elm "U. glabra". The name means 'ford by a wych elm or ford by a dairy-farm'.