Named for the Earl of Camperdown, Camperdown House, Dundee. See Nomenclature.

This is a sport of Ulmus glabra or Ulmus x hollandica var vegeta. Named for the Earl of Camperdown, Camperdown House, Dundee, whose head gardener, David Taylor discovered it in circa 1840. It was transplanted it into the Earl's garden where it still lives. All other trees of Ulmus 'Camperdownii' are raised by grafting it onto Ulmus glabra rootstock as it does not come true to seed. It is susceptible to Dutch Elm disease, but rarely gets it 'because of its diminutive height'