Ulmus minor 'Laciniata'

Ulmus minor
Cultivar 'Laciniata'
Origin Europe

The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Laciniata' was listed by Wesmael in Bulletin de la Fédération des sociétés d'horticulture de Belgique 1862: 390 1863 as Ulmus campestris var. nuda subvar. microphylla laciniata Hort. Vilv..

Description

The tree was described as having laciniate leaves 35 cm long.[1]

Cultivation

No specimens are known to survive; a specimen at the Ryston Hall , Norfolk, arboretum, obtained from the Léon Chenault nursery in Orléans before 1914,[2] was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s.

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.
  2. Ryston Hall Arboretum catalogue. c. 1920. pp. 13–14.
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