Ulmus 'Folia Rhomboidea'

Ulmus
Cultivar 'Folia Rhomboidea'
Origin Belgium

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Folia Rhomboidea' is one of a number of cultivars possibly arising from the crossing of the Wych Elm Ulmus glabra with a variety of Field Elm Ulmus minor. First mentioned by Morren in Journal D'Agriculture Pratique de Belgique 4: 509, 511, 1851 as U. campestris latifolia, foliis rhomboides.

Description

Reputed to resemble 'Pitteurs' but for the rhomboid shape of the leaf.[1]

Cultivation

Once grown on the Pitteurs estate, Sint-Truiden, Belgium. No specimens are known to survive.

References

  1. Green, Peter Shaw (1964). "Registration of cultivar names in Ulmus" (PDF). Arnoldia. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 24 (6–8): 41–80. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
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